Neurological surgeons specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves. At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the staff of the Department of Neurosurgery works closely with the physicians in allied specialties to provide state of the art care for these complex problems.
Special expertise is available in several areas of neurosurgery.
These include treatment of aneurysms and complex vascular malformation involving the brain and spinal cord, treatment of all types of tumors involving the brain and spine including tumors of the skull base, and treatment of both simple and complex problems of the spine including advanced techniques in instrumentation. As part of comprehensive multidisciplinary programs, surgical options for epilepsy and for movement disorders including Parkinson's disease are also offered, and there is a multidisciplinary program devoted to treatment of pain. A full program in stereotactic surgery, including framless techniques and stereotactic radiosurgery, is available. The Department of Neurological Surgery and the Department of Neurology actively develop new programs in which neurologic disorders are treated by teams of collaborating physicians, each of whom has highly-specialized expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of the neurologic disorder. Interventional neuroradiologists and neurovascular neurosurgeons collaborate to diagnose and treat complex vascular malformations of the brain and spine and cerebral aneurysms.