Neurosurgery (or neurological surgery) is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.
General Neurosurgery is the practice where a neurosurgeon handles most of the neurosurgery conditions including neuro-trauma and other neuro-emergencies such as intracranial hemorrhage. Most level 1 hospitals have this kind of practice.
Specialized branches have developed to cater special and difficult conditions. These specialized branches co-exist with general neurosurgery in more sophisticated hospitals. To practice these higher specialization within neurosurgery, additional higher fellowship training of 1–2 years is expected from the neurosurgeon.
Some of these divisions of neurosurgery are:
Traumatic Head Injury
Intracrenial Bleeding(Subdural, Extradural Hematoma).
Vascular and Endovascular neurosurgery
Stereotactic, Functional and Epilepsy neurosurgery
Hydrocaphalus
Meningomyelocele
Oncological neurosurgery
Spine neurosurgery
Skull-Base Surgery
Peripheral nerve surgery
Pediatric neurosurgery |
