What diseases does neurosurgery treat?

There are many problems in the human body, and different problems manifest themselves with different symptoms. In addition, problems in different parts of the body require examination in different departments of the hospital. For example, diseases in the brain should be examined in the neurosurgery department. There are many diseases that can be examined in the neurosurgery department. So what diseases does the neurosurgery department treat?

Brain surgery generally refers to neurosurgery, which is the youngest, most complex and fastest-growing discipline in medicine. In the past, due to technical limitations, human brain surgery could be said to be a forbidden zone. However, with the development of science and technology, various microneurosurgical operations can now be performed with the help of advanced microsurgical equipment.

The scope of neurosurgery treatment generally falls into the following categories.

1. Intracranial infectious diseases such as brain abscess, ventriculitis, etc.

2. Intracranial parasitic diseases such as cerebral cysticercosis, cerebral echinococcosis, etc.

3. Functional neurosurgical diseases such as trigeminal neuralgia, epilepsy, etc.

4. Head trauma, intracranial hematoma, cerebral contusion, brain swelling, spinal cord injury, etc.

5. Spinal cord tumors such as spinal neurothecoma, meningocele, syringomyelia, thrombotic cord syndrome, etc.

6. Intracranial tumors such as meningioma, glioma, pituitary tumor, craniopharyngioma, acoustic neuroma, germ cell tumor, etc.

7. Cerebrovascular diseases such as intracranial aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation, moyamoya disease, etc.; and interventional and embolization treatment of cerebrovascular diseases.

8. Various congenital cranial diseases and spinal cord malformations such as congenital hydrocephalus, craniotomy, meningocele, tethered cord syndrome, etc.

9. Treatment of hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage: craniotomy with bone flap, small bone window craniotomy, mother-child tube drainage, minimally invasive drilling drainage, etc.

Neurosurgery (brain surgery) is a science that studies diseases of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system using surgical methods and surgery as the main treatment means.

The research scope of neurosurgery includes the causes and pathogenesis of diseases such as congenital developmental abnormalities of the nervous system, trauma, infection, tumors, vascular diseases and genetic metabolic disorders, and explores new diagnostic and treatment methods. It is a high-level, sophisticated and cutting-edge discipline in the current medical field, and is the youngest, most complex and fastest-growing discipline in medicine. It is difficult to determine exactly when it originated, looking through the vast amount of prehistoric data and archaeological evidence.