Brain Nerve Surgery

Brain surgery is a branch of surgery dealing with the surgical treatment of diseases and injuries of the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system. A doctor who specializes in neurosurgery is a neurosurgeon.

List of conditions requiring brain surgery:

• Aneurysm
• Congenital diseases that develop during the formation of the nervous systems (like meningomyelocele)
• Other childhood diseases
• Hydrocephalus (congestion in the brain) arising from congenital or acquired conditions)
• Cavernoma
• Carpal tunnel and other nerve entrapments
• Traumas of the head, spine and spinal cord
• Brain hemorrhages
• Brain, spine and spinal cord tumors
• All spinal diseasesincluding hernias of the lower back and neck
• Arteriovenous malformation

In the diagnosis of headaches, a set of examinations is used, including the study of the fundus, visual fields, visual acuity, hearing, smell, radiography of the bones of the skull, ultrasound echo-encephalography, electroencephalography, computed and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, positron emission tomography, cerebral angiography and other surveys.