Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Great progress has been made in the surgical treatment of diseases of the Spine and Brain, with the new techniques of Minimally Invasive Surgery, but also of the individualized guided surgery.
Until recently, patients had to undergo major surgeries, with large surgical incisions, long recovery, significant postoperative pain, more frequent postoperative complications, and high costs. With new techniques all this is a thing of the past.
Application of new methods in the Spine
With Minimally Invasive Surgery techniques, diseases of the spine can be treated, including sciatica (pain that reflects in the legs), back pain (back pain), herniated discs of the cervix and lumbar spine, lumbar spine, and spondylolisthesis.
Using special tools, the surgeon can approach the problem, through small incisions, without destroying the patient’s normal anatomy. In most cases, patients mobilize on the same day and return to normal life without pain in a very short time.
In addition to the excellent surgical results, Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery also leads to reduced costs for the patient due to reduced hospitalization time and shorter recovery.
Backache
Most people will experience back pain at least once in their lifetime. Our primary goal is to avoid surgery. We use a gradual method tailored to the needs of each patient. Initially, we attempt oral drug therapy. If this is not enough, we use specialized invasive pain management techniques, such as epidural corticosteroid injections and radiofrequency cauterization of the nerves that transmit joint pain. In both cases the patient returns home the same day.
The epidural is injected under the guidance of an X-ray machine and involves injecting steroids near the degenerative disc or in the area of ​​the lumbar stenosis. The Neurosurgery team of the 3rd Neurosurgery Clinic of HYGEIA has extensive experience in this technique and very high efficiency.
Cauterization of the sensory nerves of painful joints is also done under the guidance of an X-ray machine and is a procedure by which surgical precision permanently deactivates the small nerves that transmit sensation from the vertebral joints and cause pain. Most patients avoid surgery this way and find great relief.
Brain diseases
Similar Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Techniques are applied in diseases of the brain. In particular, the use of an endoscope treats diseases such as brain tumors and hydrocephalus.
Using special machines similar to GPS, we guide the tumor accurately, protecting the normal brain. The tumor is removed with the least possible burden on the patient.
Our extensive experience in this field ensures extremely low complication rates and very high efficiency.
Medical technology offers additional techniques with which we can ensure the safety of the brain during a complex operation in which we remove a brain tumor near a functional area.
The surgery in these cases is done with the patient awake and special tools that we place in the brain and allow us to map the areas of the brain that are responsible for various functions by asking questions to our patient on the spot during surgery. Our team has extensive experience in these specialized surgeries, offering patients higher efficiency and lower complications with the use of new technology.
In summary, the use of modern technological means (microscope, radio frequencies, electronic infusion pumps, electronic stimulators, neurotransmitters, etc.) treats a number of diseases of the brain and its vessels (aneurysms), spinal cord and peripheral invasive as well as diseases that until recently seemed impossible to treat with surgical means, such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and almost any kind of pain.
Writes:
Vassilios A. Zerris
Neurosurgeon
Director of the 3rd Neurosurgery Clinic HYGEIA
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