Brain Astrocytoma — MRI-guided Laser Ablation of Metastases: treatment in the Best Hospitals of Germany
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Department of Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery
Department of Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology annually admits over 670 patients with brain astrocytoma. Tumor and its metastases are completely removed with the help of innovative technique – laser ablation by miniature flexible catheter under the MRI-guidance. The department is headed by Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Gasser, a member of the German Society of Neurosurgery and the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
Department of Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery
The Department of Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery offers the full range of services for the diagnostics and surgical treatment of diseases of the brain, spinal cord, spine and peripheral nerves. The department uses neuronavigation systems, 3D x-ray, intraoperative dopplerography, stereotaxy, electrophysiology, high-precision surgical microscopes and many other advanced devices that guarantee the effective and safe treatment. The department's surgeons are top-class professionals with rich clinical experience. The doctors always prefer sparing minimally invasive surgical techniques, while classic open surgery is performed only in complex clinical cases. State-of-the-art computer equipment allows the doctors to perform accurate planning of the neurosurgical intervention based on CT and MRI scans, which practically reduces the risk of developing a neurological deficit after the surgical treatment.
Department of Neurosurgery
The Department of Neurosurgery offers the full range of services in its area of specialization. The department successfully performs operations to treat diseases and injuries of the brain, spinal cord and spine. It also has a 24-hour emergency medical service. Close cooperation with specialists in the field of orthopedics and traumatology, radiology, anesthesiology and early rehabilitation allows providing comprehensive medical care. The patients can be confident that they will receive interdisciplinary and most effective treatment. Clinical practice is based on an individual approach to each patient and his clinical situation. In addition, high treatment success rates are achieved through the use of the most advanced computer-assisted medical technologies – navigation systems allow performing interventions on the brain and spinal cord with pinpoint accuracy, guaranteeing the patient maximum safety.
Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery
The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery provides the full range of modern diagnostics and treatment of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems for patients of all ages, ranging from newborns to the elderly. The department's neurosurgeons focus on patients with brain and spinal cord tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, movement disorders, peripheral nerve compression syndromes, and spinal pathologies. In the field of pediatric neurosurgery, particular interest is in the surgical treatment of brain tumors, congenital malformations of the nervous system, and traumatic brain injuries. The department carries out comprehensive diagnostic examinations of the nervous system, including laboratory tests, neurophysiological studies, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, including functional MRI and diffusion-weighted MRI, and positron emission tomography. The department's team of surgeons carefully plans each surgical procedure, as it is important to the specialists that the patient receives the most effective and safest treatment. For this purpose, the NeuroVis 3D planning computer program is used here. Brain and spinal cord surgery is performed using advanced neuronavigation systems, intraoperative monitoring, and fluorescent navigation with 5-aminolevulinic acid, which eliminates the risk of damaging vital anatomical structures of the brain and spinal cord.
Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery
The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery performs the full range of surgical interventions to treat diseases of the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nervous system. The department admits both adults and children. The specially trained team of pediatric neurosurgeons takes care of the health of young patients. The key attention in clinical practice is paid to the surgical treatment of oncological diseases of the nervous system, including tumors of the brain, spinal canal, skull base and pituitary gland. The surgical treatment of epilepsy in adults and children, operations for aneurysms and vascular malformations are also among the priority areas of work of the department's neurosurgeons. The interventions are performed in high-tech operating rooms, in compliance with all standards of hygiene and safety. Most surgical procedures are carefully planned using computed tomography and brain mapping systems, which excludes damage to functionally important anatomical structures. Whenever possible, the preference is given to sparing surgical techniques, with surgical access through one or more small incisions.
Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery
The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery offers the full range of surgical treatment for patients of all ages with diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. The department is the largest Neurosurgery Center in Germany with certification by the German Cancer Society (DKG) in the treatment of neuro-oncological diseases and certification by the German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) and the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) in the treatment of spinal pathologies. The department's medical team specializes in the surgical treatment of neurovascular diseases, movement disorders, with a special emphasis on the treatment of Parkinson's disease using deep brain stimulation, benign and malignant tumors of the brain and spinal cord, and neurosurgical diseases in children. A separate focus of the daily clinical practice of specialists is spinal surgery. The neurosurgeons of the department brilliantly perform microsurgical interventions for herniated intervertebral discs, spinal stenosis, and spinal instability. Surgical treatment focuses not only on achieving a good therapeutic result, but also on preserving the functions of the brain and spinal cord. The department's specialists use minimally invasive, endoscopic, and microsurgical techniques. The department has 3 high-tech operating rooms where more than 3,000 surgical procedures are performed annually. The department treats over 7,000 patients every year, about 2,000 of them in inpatient settings. The department has 62 inpatient beds.
Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery
The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery offers the full range of services in this field. The department specializes in the surgical treatment of diseases of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves in adults and children. During the treatment, the department uses the very latest surgical techniques and technical equipment, for example, robotic spinal surgery. The department is one of the leading neurosurgical medical institutions in Germany and Europe.
