Neurosurgery

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''While all of this is very interesting, the aspects of neurosurgery that bear particular relevence course material include: biopsy, functional neurosurgery, commisurotomy, and lobotomy.''
''While all of this is very interesting, the aspects of neurosurgery that bear particular relevence course material include: biopsy, functional neurosurgery, commisurotomy, and lobotomy.''
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== Surgical Management of Seizures ==
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''temporal lobectomy''
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''Commissurotomies''
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''hemispherectomy''
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== Pschosurgery ==
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''lobotomy''
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== Tumors ==
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''biopsy''
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''Intraoperative language mapping''

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Definition

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders that affect the entire nervous system including the spinal column, spinal cord, brain and peripheral nerves. Some of the general categories of neurosurgery include: treating tumors of the CNS, treating seizure and movement disorders, treating the affects of injury to the CNS, treating strokes, and treating chronic pain.SOURCE: The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS).

While all of this is very interesting, the aspects of neurosurgery that bear particular relevence course material include: biopsy, functional neurosurgery, commisurotomy, and lobotomy.

Surgical Management of Seizures

temporal lobectomy Commissurotomies hemispherectomy

Pschosurgery

lobotomy

Tumors

biopsy Intraoperative language mapping

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