Neurosurgery (Department)

Tumor surgery: brain tumor, meningioma, glioma, metastasis, spinal tumor, and tumor of peripheral nerves

Spinal surgery: disk herniation, spinal canal stenosis and instability, inflammations, and vascular malfor- mations

Vascular Neurosurgery: treatment of cerebral artery pathologies: cerebral hemorrhage, aneurysm and angioma, subarachnoidal hemorrhage, and surgical care of apoplexy

Pediatric Neurosurgery including Neuroendoscopy: hydrocephalus, spinal dysraphism, craniosynosto- sis, and spinal fixation

Functional Neurosurgery: deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, tremors, and dystonia

Neurotraumatology: care of all cranial and spinal injuries

Surgical care of Peripheral Nerves: carpal-canal syndrome

Minimally invasive neurosurgery if indicated

Intraoperative high-field MRI and function-guided surgery

Special focuses:

• Image-guided Tumor Surgery (including fluorescence microscopy): tumor surgery in the MRI, awake craniotomy for tumors in eloquent areas, meningiomas, and vestibular neurinoma
• Deep brain stimulation: Parkinson’s disease, tre- mors, and dystonia
• Spinal surgery: disk herniation, spinal canal steno- sis, instability, and spinal tumors

Neurooncology: radical tumor removal, image- guidance, and molecular biology

Cranial vascular disease

Functional neurosurgery including electrophysiology of basal ganglia

Neuro-navigation and functional MRI

Neurotraumatology including spine injury

Vertebral column

Pediatric neurosurgery

Minimally invasive neurosurgery

Brain tumor biology

Medical engineering

Adjuvant immunomodulatory therapies for primary and recurrent high-grade gliomas

Combined Endovascular and Neurosurgical Therapy of Cerebrovascular diseases: aneurysms, arterio venous malformations, stenosis

Special outpatient clinics for the following sectors: tumors, children, interdisciplinary spine pain, cerebrovascular diseases, and movement disorders