Neurosurgery is a medical specialty dealing with diseases or traumas to the brain, the meninges, the spinal cord, the spine or the peripheral nerves. Each patient needs a very specific care and the help the latest technological advances.
This is a non exhaustive list of the conditions treated at the Brussels Neurosurgical Center :
Brain and skull
- Brain tumours : meningiomas, astrocytomas, glioblastomas, ependymomas, oligodendrogliomas, vestibular schwannomas, brain metastases, pituitary tumours …
- Hydrocephalus : Ventriculo peritoneal (VP) shunts, ventriculo atrial (VA) shunts, ventriculostomy, lumbo-peritoneal shunts …
- Brain trauma : skull fractures, epidural hematoma, subdural hematoma, intracerebral hematoma, cerebral contusion, diffuse axonal injury …
- Cerebral hemorrhage : Aneurism, arterio-venous malformations, dural fistula, venous thrombosis, hypertensive hematomas, …
Spine
- Disc herniations : lumbar, cervical, thoracic, … (anterior or posterior approaches)
- Spine arthritis : lumbar or cervical spine stenosis …
- Instabilities and deformities of the spine : spondylolysis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, vertebral fractures, osteoporotic fractures, congenital deformities (except scoliosis) …
- Spine tumours : Malignant tumours, spinal metastases, spinal cord tumours, spinal meningiomas, spinal neuronomas, …
Others
- Peripheral nerves : cubital nerve entrapment, peripheral nerves tumours, …
- Surgical treatment of pain : epidural infiltrations, epidural neurostimulation, trigeminal neuralgia, …