Neurosurgery
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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
