Neurosurgery is the surgical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, cranial and peripheral nerves, blood supply (carotid and arterial arteries), skull and spinal column.

Sacred Heart Medical Group's neurosurgery team provides comprehensive surgical treatment for neurological conditions affecting children and adults.  Their capabilities include:  

• General neurosurgery in adults and children
• Craniotomies for:
     - Brain tumors and intracranial tumors including meningiomas,
       acoustic tumors, pituitary tumors and others
     - Aneurysms and arterio-venous malformations (AVM)
     - Hemorrhage 
     - Trauma
• Spinal fluid shunts
• Vascular neurosurgery including carotid endarterectomy
• Peripheral nerve surgery including carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel and 
  tarsal tunnel decompressions
• Nerve and muscle biopsies, temporal artery biopsies
• Spine surgery of all types
• Surgical treatment of epilepsy
• Intracranial endoscopy
• Surgical treatment of pain and movement disorders including
  drug-infusion pump and stimulator implantation
• Correction of skull defects and congenital abnormalities
  (cranio-synostosis and other cranio-facial anomalies)
• Radiosurgery
• Surgical treatment of hemifacial spasm
• Surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia
• Vertebral augmentation (kyphoplasty/vertebroplasty)

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