Usually the first CT or MRI will occur approximately six months after your procedure to check on the status of your lesion. Changes in reducing the size or destroying the lesion occur over time and may take from one to three years. If you are having problems pertaining to your brain, a neurosurgeon is the appropriate medical professional to direct your treatment. Neurological surgery is the specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the nervous system. Neurosurgeons treat patients with problems related to the head, spinal cord or nerves.
Neurosurgeons undergo six to eight years of rigorous training following medical school.
After successfully completing this training, two years of medical practice and a written examination, neurosurgeons can become Board Certified. At some centers, patients who have Parkinson's disease, epilepsy or some form of psychoneurosis, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, may be treated on an experimental basis with stereotactic radiosurgery. A test in which a tube is inserted into an artery, usually in your groin area, and dye is injected through the tube and x-rays taken of the vessels in your brain. An abnormal conection of arteries to veins. The precise delivery of radiation to a preselected stereotactically localized target.