Neurosurgery

Ultra-modern technical equipment (including neuro-navigation) and the outstanding skills of our medical team guarantee optimal treatment of all diseases of the entire nervous system in the Neurosurgery Clinic.

The range of conditions treated include tumours of the brain, bone marrow and peripheral nerves, injuries to the central and peripheral nerve systems, haemorrhages related to aneurysms and angiomas of the brain as well as spontaneous brain haemorrhages related to high blood pressure conditions.

Further areas of focus are the surgical treatment of compression syndromes of the peripheral nerves (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome, sulcus ulnaris syndrome), nerve root compression syndromes related to vertebral disk prolapse (slipped disk) and bony constrictions of the spinal canal (e.g. spinal stenosis). Removal of the disk prolapse is performed as a microsurgical procedure under general anaesthetic or using the puncture method under local anaesthetic.

Chronic pain syndromes and spasticity (e.g. following cranio-cerebral traumas) are either treated with the administration of opioides/Baclofen into the spinal fluid using implantable pump systems or, in the case of chronic pain syndromes, with electrical stimulation of the peripheral nerves, spinal cord or motor cortex.

In typical therapy-resistant trigeminus neuralgia, microvascular decompression of the nerves is performed (Janetta operation).

Neuronavigation is employed for intra-operative localisation of brain tumours and spinal column instrumentation in degenerative or traumatic instability.

In minor cerebral procedures where access needs to be achieved with a minimally invasive, non-tissue-damaging procedure, we use stereotaxy. This method uses computer tomography to calculate the exact target point.  

In brain and nerve function cases, brainwaves (EEG), nerve activity and nerve conduction velocity (EMG, NCV) are measured in our Electrophysiological Laboratory in cooperation with the Neurological Clinic of the Marienhospital in Hamm.

The Neuropsychology Department performs comprehensive perioperative diagnosis and treatment of patients with brain disease (e.g. following craniocerebral traumas, aneurysms, tumours of the central nervous system and hydrocephalus).