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Neurosurgery
Neurological surgery is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment, usually surgical, of disorders involving the central, peripheral and autonomic nervous systems.
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals' neurological surgery team has an international reputation in the treatment of children, movement disorders, brain tumours and vascular disorders. There are also important multidisciplinary services in skull base tumours and spinal cord diseases.
Brain surgery treats lesions of the brain and its surrounding structures. Brain surgery may be needed to treat the following.
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Brain tumours, bleeding (haemorrhage) or blood clots (haematomas) from injuries (subdural haematoma or epidural haematomas).
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Weaknesses in blood vessels (cerebral aneurysms), abnormal blood vessels (arteriovenous malformations or AVM) and damage to tissues covering the brain (dura).
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Pockets of infection in the brain (brain abscesses), severe nerve or facial pain (such as trigeminal neuralgia or tic douloureux), trauma to the skull and repair of skull fractures.
Spinal surgery has traditionally been shared with orthopaedic surgeons. Conditions dealt with include intervertebral disc prolapse, intrinsic spinal cord tumours and traumatic fractures and instability.
Our neurological surgeons have subspecialties including neurovascular surgery, pituitary surgery, spinal surgery, paediatric neurosurgery and functional surgery for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
The neurological surgery unit is part of a neurosciences centre, which includes neurology, neuroradiology, neuropathology, neurorehabilitation and neuropsychology.