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Procedures, risks and post-operative instructions

Brain

 

  Trauma
    craniotomy for acute subdural hematoma
    craniotomy for acute epidural hematoma
    craniotomy for intracerebral hematoma
    burr hole for subacute or chronic subdural hematoma
   

 
  Spontaneous (nontraumatic) bleeding in brain
  craniotomy for aneurysm
    craniotomy for AVM (arteriovenous malformation)
    Gamma Knife / radiosurgery (AVM)
    craniotomy for spontaneous hypertensive cerebral hematoma
   

 
  Tumor

Benign

  craniotomy for meningioma
    craniotomy for acoustic neuroma
    transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors
    gamma knife / radiosurgery
   

Malignant

    craniotomy for astrocytoma
    craniotomy for metastatic tumors
    gamma knife / radiosurgery
   

Other

    benign and malignant
     
  Hydrocephalus
    vertriculostomy
    ventriculoperitoneal shunt
     

  Functional disorders

Epilepsy

    craniotomy for epilepsy

 
   

Pain

   

trigeminal neuralgia
rhizotomy
microvascular decompression
gamma knife / radiosurgery

extremity pain
spinal cord stimulator

 

 

 

    

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