Neurosurgery Treatment - Who Needs it and What the Success Rates Are

Added: 10/01/2006
Want to impress your friends? Meet gorgeous women? Tell them you're a neurosurgeon! It works every time. Unfortunately nothing is THAT easy. Neurological Surgery is a specialty of surgery that provides the operative and non-operative management of disorders of the central, peripheral and autonomic nervous systems, which includes their supportive structures and blood vessel supply; the assessment and healing of pathologies that alter the activity or functioning of the nervous system and the operative and non-operative pain management.

Neurosurgery treatment is focused on treating those central peripheral nervous systems diseases agreeable to mechanical intervention. Neurosurgery is generally considered to be one of the most prominent fields in medicine. This is thanks to the extremely intricate knowledge base needed to master the field, extremely careful admittance criteria for entrance into neurosurgery position programs.
Neurosurgery is an entity of surgery that invents methods of diagnosis and surgical treatment of the central peripheral nervous systems diseases and injuries. It separated as an independent discipline in the 1920ies due to numerous achievements of neurology and development of surgical techniques and neurosurgery definition and scope were outlined. Neurosurgery is related to neurophysioligy, radiology and some other braches of medicine and uses their research methods, most often radiological which includes computed tomography, radionucleids, ultrasonic, etc.

Success of microsurgery plays the important role in development of neurosurgery treatment. The stereotactic method in neurosurgery allows reaching deeply located structures and different zones of brain by surgical instruments with minimal damage to the tissues and vessels. This method contributes to the creation of a new branch of neurosurgery - stereotactic surgery.

The assistance of neuroradiologists, the usage of computer tomography, nuclear resonance and spiral tomography allow qualified surgeons of medical centers and clinics to perform procedures of all neurosurgery branches:

- Physiological neurosurgery: treats tolerant pains such as trigeminal neuralgia and pain related with oncological diseases; also treats Parkinson's disease.

- Endocrinological neurosurgery: treats hypophysis tumors.

- General neurosurgery: microsurgical treatment of malignant tumors in the brain, spinal cord, vascular disorders, bleeding in the brain tissues and intervertebral cartilages dislocation.

Another great help for neurosurgeons is endoscopy. Endoscopy is the method of using a tube with a light source and a lens to research a body cavity through a tiny opening. Endoscopes look like micro-telescopes but actually they are more like microscopes since they enable both visualization and illumination of very close objects rather than distant ones. Endoscopic methods are broad used in medicine. Laparoscopy, arthroscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy - all these techniques in neurosurgery treatment are performed by means of endoscopes.

Neurosurgeons first used endoscopes a few decades ago but that utilization was limited. Lately, thanks to achievements and a tidal wave towards minimally invasive surgical techniques, the utilization of endoscopes has extended in neurosurgery treatment. Endoscopes can be inserted into the brain via little holes (as small as 3 mm) perforated in the skull.  Petite surgical instruments can be placed afterwards through that same hole made for the endoscope to heal hydrocephalus, cysts, biopsy tumors. Spinal surgery can as well be performed by means of endoscopy in some cases.

Surgical procedures can be carried out under general or local anesthesia so patients often go back home after merely a one-day stay at hospital.

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