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Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria Hospital Berlin
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Department of Spinal Surgery

The Department of Spinal Surgery at the Vivantes Auguste-Victoria Hospital all diseases of the spine - both conservatively and operatively. Patients with herniated intervertebral discs, displacement of vertebrae, stenosis of the spinal canal or back pain are treated here. In addition, specialists of the department have a unique experience in the field of complex reconstructive and revision surgeries, which are conducted to continue or correct the previous surgical treatment.

Mario Cabraja
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Department of Spinal Surgery

The Department of Spinal Surgery offers the full range of effective treatment methods in the area of its specialization. A highly qualified team of doctors is at the service of the department's patients, who have in their arsenal advanced conservative and surgical treatment methods for pathological changes in the spine. Spinal surgical procedures are performed in modern operating rooms, the technical equipment of which allows spinal surgeons to perfectly perform both major open surgery and sparing interventions: minimally invasive, endoscopic, and microsurgical. Surgical treatment is complemented by a carefully planned course of physiotherapy. This includes procedures such as therapeutic exercises, manual therapy, massage, osteopathic treatment, etc. The department's team of doctors consists of 10 highly qualified specialists who, together with experienced nursing staff, admit more than 1,300 inpatients annually. The medical facility is certified by the German Society for Spine Surgery (DWG) as a level II specialized center. The department's medical team makes every effort to provide each patient with optimal treatment in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere.

Francis Kilian
Dr. med.Francis Kilian
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Charite University Hospital Berlin
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery offers the full range of accurate diagnostics and surgical treatment of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. The department's surgeons annually perform over 5,000 surgical interventions, which indicates their high professionalism and tremendous experience. The key attention is paid to the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, diseases of the spine and spinal cord, brain and skull base tumors, peripheral nerve lesions, cerebrospinal fluid circulation disorders, as well as pain therapy (functional neurosurgery). The treatment of neurosurgical diseases in children and adolescents is carried out by a specially trained team of experts.

Peter Vajkoczy
Prof. Dr. med.Peter Vajkoczy
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University Hospital Freiburg
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University Hospital Freiburg

Overall rating 9.7 / 10

Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery offers the full range of surgical treatment of diseases of the brain, spine, spinal cord and nerves in adults and children. The department keeps pace with new trends in medicine, as well as contributes significantly to their development. Therefore, the most modern diagnostic and therapeutic methods are available here. An individual approach to each clinical case is crucial to ensure optimal treatment results with the preservation of all neurological functions.

Jürgen Beck
Prof. Dr. med.Jürgen Beck
University Hospital Frankfurt am Main
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery

According to the Focus magazine, the Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery ranks among the top German medical facilities specializing in the surgical treatment of brain tumors! The department offers the full range of diagnostics and surgical treatment of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. A specially trained team of pediatric neurosurgeons provides treatment for various neurosurgical pathologies in children. During the treatment, the doctors use state-of-the-art equipment, in particular, imaging-guided neuronavigation, functional imaging (fMRI), intraoperative mapping, intraoperative videoangiography, etc.

Volker Seifert
Prof. Dr. med.Volker Seifert
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University Hospital Erlangen
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University Hospital Erlangen

Overall rating 9.1 / 10

Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery offers modern diagnostics and effective treatment of the full range of diseases, injuries, inflammatory processes, tumors and malformations of the brain, spinal cord and their meninges, as well as spinal diseases. Spinal surgery is performed in collaboration with doctors from the Department of Adult and Pediatric Traumatology, Orthopedic Surgery. The department admits adults and children with malformations of the nervous system, brain and spinal cord tumors, drug-resistant epilepsy and other diseases. As one of the largest medical facilities of this kind in Germany, the department's doctors annually perform more than 2,500 surgical interventions on the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve endings. The department's specialists also perform over 400 spinal surgical procedures annually. To achieve high success rates of the surgical treatment, doctors use the very latest equipment, including neuronavigation systems. Thanks to this, surgeons not only successfully eliminate the pathology, but also guarantee the patient maximum safety. The department has 78 beds, including 14 beds in the Intensive Care Unit. The priority goal of the department's medical team is to provide high-quality treatment focused on the patient's needs.

Michael Buchfelder
Prof. Dr. med.Michael Buchfelder
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University Hospital Ulm
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University Hospital Ulm

Overall rating 8.7 / 10

Department of Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery

The Department of Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery provides top-class medical care for patients with diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. The medical facility performs surgery of any complexity on the brain, spinal cord, spine, and peripheral nerves. The department is the largest healthcare facility of this kind in Germany and has a team of highly professional neurosurgeons with long clinical experience. The department's specialists focus on patients with brain tumors (gliomas, meningiomas, and brain metastases), neurovascular diseases (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and dural arteriovenous fistulas), and traumatic brain injuries. Spinal surgeons operate on patients with herniated discs, spinal canal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, spondylodiscitis, spinal fractures, and spinal tumors. The department extensively uses minimally invasive surgical techniques that allow for good therapeutic results with high safety in surgical manipulations. The medical facility has two hybrid operating rooms with state-of-the-art equipment, including the Zeego® intraoperative robotic angiography system and the intraoperative Brainsuite® MRI.

Christian Rainer Wirtz
Prof. Dr. med.Christian Rainer Wirtz
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University Hospital Würzburg
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Orthopedics

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Orthopedics is the center of maximum orthopedic care and offers the diagnostics and treatment of all diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system. Along with the full range of modern operative and conservative orthopedics, the department specializes in hip and knee replacement surgery using the minimally invasive methods, replacement/revision of prostheses, orthopaedic oncology, foot surgery and patella problems in the patella.

Maximilian Rudert
Prof. Dr. med.Maximilian Rudert
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University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, Foot Surgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, Foot Surgery offers the full range of diagnostics, conservative and surgical treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and injuries. The department is a certified Endoprosthetics Center – more than 1,000 primary joint replacement surgeries are performed here annually. The surgeons of the Endoprosthetics Center also specialize in particularly complex clinical cases and revision procedures for the replacement of previously implanted artificial joints. In addition, the department has the status of the interregional Trauma Center certified in accordance with the standards of the German Trauma Society. The department has also been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the German Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (DAF) in the field of foot surgery. A separate area of ​​clinical activity is the treatment of diseases, injuries and congenital malformations of the musculoskeletal system in children. Depending on the severity of the clinical case, both conservative and surgical techniques are used in the treatment of orthopedic pathologies in children. The department's medical team prefers sparing low-traumatic surgery, while open operations are performed only if other therapeutic options are ineffective.

Klaus-Dieter Schaser
Prof. Dr. med.Klaus-Dieter Schaser
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University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery offers the diagnostics and comprehensive treatment of neurosurgical pathologies, including tumors of the central and peripheral nervous system. The department is the leading Center of Neurosurgery in Northern Germany and is responsible for the implementation of new algorithms for the treatment of patients with brain tumors. To this end, there is an active participation in the international researches and the development of new surgical methods, for example, operations in the waking state. Close interdisciplinary cooperation also contributes to the achievement of optimal treatment results.

Manfred Westphal
Prof. Dr. med.Manfred Westphal
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University Hospital Muenster
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University Hospital Muenster

Overall rating 9.8 / 10

Department of General Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology

The Department of General Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology offers the full range of conservative and surgical treatment of all musculoskeletal diseases. The department ranks among the largest medical facilities of this kind in Germany, as well as among the specialized authoritative departments for the treatment of bone and soft tissue tumors in the European medical arena. The treatment is carried out both on an outpatient and inpatient basis, including the outpatient operations. In addition to its successful clinical activities, the department is proud of its productive research work, which has given birth to many innovations in orthopedics, for example, the department's specialists have patented the very latest prosthetic systems, particularly in the field of orthopedic oncology.

Georg Gosheger
Prof. Dr. med.Georg Gosheger
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University Hospital Jena
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University Hospital Jena

Overall rating 8.9 / 10

Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery offers the full range of modern services in this medical field. The high level of technical equipment in the department allows for the performance of all highly specialized surgical interventions to treat pathologies of the central and peripheral nervous system. The clinical practice mainly focuses on the diagnostics and surgical treatment of diseases, injuries of the brain, spine, spinal cord, intervertebral discs, nerve plexuses, functional neurosurgery and the treatment of neurosurgical pathologies in children.

Rolf Kalff
Prof. Dr. med.Rolf Kalff
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University Hospital Marburg UKGM
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery offers all modern surgical interventions for the treatment of pathologies of the nervous system. The clinical focuses include the treatment of oncological diseases of the nervous system (neuro-oncology), skull base surgery, vascular neurosurgery, spinal surgery and functional neurosurgery, including the surgical treatment of epilepsy. As a state-of-the-art medical facility, the department has the advanced systems for deep brain stimulation, multimodal neuronavigation devices, intraoperative neuronavigation using CT, ultrasound systems, fluorescence imaging devices and endoscopy equipment. Thus, the department has all the possibilities to ensure effective treatment according to the international standards.

Christopher Nimsky
Prof. Dr. med.Christopher Nimsky
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University Hospital Rechts der Isar Munich
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery offers the full range of services in these fields and specializes in the surgical treatment of diseases of the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nervous system and spine. The important areas of the department's clinical activity also include neuro-oncology, vascular neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery. The treatment is provided in four state-of-the-art operating rooms equipped with all the necessary facilities. The department admits about 2,700 inpatients and 4,100 outpatients annually. The team of the department's neurosurgeons is distinguished by high professionalism, and performs many operations using sparing minimally invasive surgical techniques. Navigation systems, intraoperative monitoring devices, 5-ALA fluorescence are successfully used during the surgical treatment. Each operation is carefully planned using advanced navigation devices (under the guidance of CT and MRI scanning). In general, the department's surgeons annually perform more than 4,000 neurosurgical interventions, and therefore they are justifiably proud of their unique clinical experience and treatment results.

Bernhard Meyer
Prof. Dr. med.Bernhard Meyer
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University Hospital Halle (Saale)
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Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery

The Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery offers the full range of modern diagnostic examinations, conservative and surgical treatment of the musculoskeletal system. The competence also includes round-the-clock medical care for patients with severe and multiple injuries. The department operates a certified Endoprosthetics Center, within which the patients undergo knee, hip and shoulder replacement surgeries. All the department's doctors have excellent qualifications and they are recognized experts in their field of competence, which guarantees the highest quality of medical service.

Karl-Stefan Delank
Prof. Dr. med.Karl-Stefan Delank
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Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery offers the full range of diagnostic examinations and surgical treatment of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. The team of the department's neurosurgeons successfully performs operations for pathologies of the brain and spinal cord, spine, neurovascular pathologies, pituitary diseases, and epilepsy. The doctors specialize in surgery for malignant brain tumors. The department is part of the Gliome Competence Center Network and the German Cancer Aid. The department uses the latest minimally invasive microsurgical techniques, navigation systems, intraoperative systems, and other advanced technical resources that allow for an optimal therapy result. The department has 84 beds for its patients, 10 of which are intended for intensive care. Medical care is based on an individual approach with due consideration of the patient's specific clinical data and needs. The specialists working at the medical facility always devote enough time to personal communication with their patients and do everything possible so that they receive effective treatment and maintain a decent quality of life.

Christian Schichor
Prof. Dr. med.Christian Schichor
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Spinal astrocytoma is a rare tumor of the central nervous system. It can be diagnosed in both children and adults. The treatment methods used have limited efficacy, since spinal astrocytoma often cannot be completely removed. It is characterized by infiltrative growth and has no clear boundaries. However, in the case of timely diagnostics and if the tumor has a small size, it can be completely removed without a significant neurological deficit.

Diagnostic goals

The diagnostic procedures performed for the diagnostics of spinal astrocytomas have the following goals:

  • Establishment of the fact of spinal cord cancer.  It is revealed in the course of instrumental diagnostics after the patient with symptoms seeks medical help from to the neurologist.
  • Determination of the type of tumor. The doctor should make sure that it is an astrocytoma, but not another type of the cancerous neoplasm.
  • Establishment of the type of tumor. Astrocytoma can be poorly or well-differentiated. It consists of different cells, which determines the prognosis of the disease. It can sometimes develop into glioblastoma, which is a tumor characterized by the highest degree of malignancy.  
  • Assessment of the prevalence of the process using CT and MRI. The neoplasm does not spread beyond the spinal cord, does not grow into the bones, but it can have different sizes and location.

The physician will also necessarily assess the patient’s neurological status, detect all symptoms and disorders. The next step is the assessment of the tumor spread. The physician studies MRI to understand if the tumor causes any narrowing in the spinal canal.

Instrumental diagnostics

In the hospitals of developed countries, radiography and computed tomography remain the main studies that can detect the tumor.  

The developed countries use MRI for the diagnostics.  Some varieties of this study can not only determine the tumor and accurately assess its size and location, but also provide an opportunity to determine the histological type with a high degree of probability prior to the histological examination.

The final diagnosis is made based on the biopsy. It can be carried out as a separate invasive procedure, but doctors often perform biopsy during the treatment process. During the operation, the doctor will remove the tumor and send a sample for a histological examination.

Where can patients undergo examination?

In case of suspected spinal astrocytoma, it is better to undergo tumor diagnostics and treatment in the best hospitals abroad. Neuro-oncology and neurosurgery are complex areas of medical science. They require high qualifications from the doctor and a well-equipped hospital. Most medical facilities in developing countries cannot offer these things. The reason for it is that spinal astrocytoma is a rare tumor and doctors almost never deal with this disease and have no experience in its treatment.

In Germany, doctors achieve great success in the treatment of spinal astrocytomas. After the tumor diagnostics, they perform surgical treatment, use radiation therapy. In some cases, the tumor can be totally removed. If the tumor cannot be resected totally, doctors will remove most of it. During the operation, the doctor makes an incision in the bones above the solid (bulk) part of the tumor, removes it as much as possible and dissects the formed cystic elements.

The Booking Health company can arrange your examination and treatment in case of spinal astrocytoma. We recommend paying attention to these hospitals:

University Hospital Freiburg. The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery provides a high-precision diagnostics to detect spinal astrocytoma. To treat the disease, doctors use cutting-edge techniques. During the operation, doctors avoid traumatizing healthy tissues and prevent a significant neurological deficit due to special intraoperative diagnostic examinations.

University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum. The doctors of the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology are ready to provide medical care to patients with any spinal cord tumors. The department uses high-precision neuronavigation systems, state-of-the-art fluorescent microscopes, which allow to distinguish healthy tissue from that one affected by the tumor process. During the operation, neurophysiological monitoring is used. The operating rooms are fitted out with equipment for intraoperative computed tomography.

Charite University Hospital Berlin. The diagnostics and treatment of spinal astrocytoma are provided in the Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery. The department performs over 5,000 operations every year. The hospital has the necessary equipment and is considered one of the best clinical and scientific centers in Europe.

Organization of examination and treatment abroad

If you want to undergo the diagnostics or treatment abroad, including in Germany, you can contact the specialists from Booking Health. Our services and benefits include:

  • Selection of the best hospital abroad, which has good statistics on the treatment of patients with spinal cord tumors.
  • Reduced cost of treatment up to 50% due to the lack of extra charges and coefficients for foreign patients.
  • Preparation of the examination program without repeating previously performed diagnostic procedures.
  • Appointment with the doctor at the suitable dates for the patient.
  • Establishment of communication with the attending physician.
  • Control of the treatment costs and return of unspent funds.
  • Assistance in buying and forwarding medicines.
  • Communication with the hospital upon the completion of the examination and treatment program.
  • Organization of additional diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

Booking Health provides top-class services. We will book airline tickets and a hotel for you, provide interpreting services, meet you at the airport and take you to the hospital. Upon the program completion, we will provide a return transfer for you.