Neurosurgery Specialist

Brain and neurosurgeon specialist; is a medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of congenital, traumatic, vascular anomalies, tumors and infections of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.

Neurosurgery Specialization Training Times:

• 6 years Faculty of Medicine

• 5 years of Specialization Training

Which Diseases Does a Neurosurgeon Specialist Treat?

Brain Tumors

Benign tumors

• Arachnoid cyst

• Acoustic neurinoma

• Chordoma

• Colloid Cyst

• Dermoid and epidermoid tumors

• Glomus jugulare tumor

• Hemangioblastoma

• Meningioma

• Pineal region tumors

• Vestibular shwannoma

Malignant Tumors

• Astrocytoma

• Ependymoma

• Estezioneuroblastoma

• Oligodendroglioma

• Germinoma

• Gliosarcoma

• Glioblastoma multiforme

• Mixt-malignant glioma

• Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma)

• Primary central nervous system lymphoma

• Metastatic brain tumors

• Pineal region tumors

Pituitary Tumors and Other Neuroendocrine Tumors

• Craniopharyngioma

• Pituitary adenomas

• Pituitary cancer

• Rathke kleft cyst

Spine Diseases

• Degenerative spine (spondylosis and spondylolisthesis)

• Astrocytoma

• Cervical myelopathy

• Cervical radiculopathy

• Cervical disc herniation , thoracic disc herniation and lumbar disc herniation

• Chiari malformation

• Chordoma

• Complex spine reconstruction

• Compression fractures

• Degenerative disc disease

• Diskitis

• General and complex spinal diseases

• Hemangioblastoma

• Hydromyelia

• Meningioma

• Neck and back pain

• Nerve sheath tumors

• Acoustic neurinoma

• Neurolemma

• Schwannoma

• Post-traumatic cervical instability

• Sciatica

• Scoliosis

• Spinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM)

• Spinal cord dysraphism

• Spinal cord injuries

• Spinal deformities

• Spinal epidural abscess

• Spinal cord lipoma and lipomyelomeningocele

• Spinal metastatic tumor

• Spinal stenosis

• Spinal injuries

• Spinal traumas

• Sports injuries

• Syringomyelia

• Vertebral osteomyelitis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

• Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)

• Brain aneurysm

• Cavernous angioma

• Cavernous malformation

• Cerebrospinal CSF leak

• Extracranial-intracranial bypass

• Intracranial hypotension

• Moya Moya disease

• Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Pediatric Diseases

• Achondroplasia

• Astrocytoma

• Chiari I and Chiari II malformation

• Congenital dermal sinus

• Craniopharyngioma

• Craniosynostosis

• Congenital Hydrocephalus

• Dandy-Walker syndrome

• Encephalocele

• Ependymoma

• Medulloblastoma

• Meningocele

• Myelomeningocele

• Spinal cord lipoma and lipomyelomeningocele

• Spinal cord syringomyelia

• Tethered cord syndrome

Pain Diseases

• Cosalgia

• Glossopharyngeal neuralgia

• Neuralgia

• Trigeminal neuralgia

Peripheral Nerve Diseases

• Brachial plexus injuries

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

• Malignant nerve sheath tumors

• Meraljia paresthetics

• Neurofibroma

• Peripheral nerve injuries

• Schwannoma

• Thoracic outlet syndrome

• Ulnar nerve entrapment

Epilepsy

• Mesial frontal lobe epilepsy

• Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

• Other exstatemporal lobe epilepsy

Adult Hydrocephalus Diseases

• Normal pressure hydrocephalus

• Pseudotumor cerebri

Brain Injuries

• Skull fractures

• Acute subdural hematoma

• Cerebral contusion and intracerebral hematoma

• Chronic subdural hematoma

• Cranial gunshot injuries

• Epidural hematoma

• Post-traumatic epilepsy

What is the Difference Between Neurosurgery and Neurology?

Neurology is a specialty that diagnoses and treats neurological diseases (multiple sclerosis, stroke, parkinson, epilepsy, etc.). Both branches are in close relationship. In many diseases, they are in an exchange of ideas with each other. Neurosurgery, on the other hand, performs the medical and surgical treatments of the diseases listed above.

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