With the region’s most advanced neurosurgical services, Saint Francis Hospital’s board-certified neurosurgeons specialize in cases ranging from neck and spine problems to the most complex neurovascular and skull base disorders.
A Range of Diagnoses
While non-surgical options are always the first choice for therapy, there is a range of more complex problems of the brain or spine that are best addressed with neurosurgery treatment, including:
- Neurologic diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Aneurysm and AVM repair
- Benign and malignant tumors of the spine and brain
- Vascular brain disorders, brain injury, and structural brain conditions
- Diseases, fractures, and conditions of the spine
- Stroke and other neurological emergencies
Precise Diagnosis Enhances Outcomes
To help ensure the best possible patient outcomes, neurosurgeons at Saint Francis Hospital use sophisticated imaging tools to pinpoint abnormalities— “brain mapping” that produces real-time images to guide the surgeon during the procedure and minimize damage to surrounding tissue.
Conditions We Treat
Saint Francis Hospital’s highly experienced neurosurgeons are leaders in their field, offering patients the most advanced treatment options. Our expert surgeons are skilled in treating a wide range of neurosurgical disorders, including:
Saint Francis Hospital’s neurosurgeons are highly skilled in treating brain, skull, and spinal cord tumors and have experience with the latest technology. Treatment options may include radiation therapy, surgery, and medications such as corticosteroids to reduce swelling.
Saint Francis Hospital is highly rated for its stroke prevention and treatment programs and treats various other cerebrovascular diseases. These blood vessel conditions can be successfully treated with surgery using diagnostic tools such as intraoperative angiography, which helps neurosurgeons visualize the blood vessels at microscopic levels during surgery.
Our neurosurgeons and otolaryngologists (ear, nose, and throat doctors) use a multidisciplinary approach to skull base surgery to ensure the safe and complete removal of benign (noncancerous) and malignant (cancerous) tumors and lesions of the undersurface of the brain.
Saint Francis Hospital takes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to peripheral nerve injuries and disorders, such as compressive neuropathies, nerve injuries, and nerve tumors. These conditions may be due to nerve damage, trauma, infection, degeneration, structural defects, tumors, autoimmune disorders, or disruption of blood flow. We offer many therapeutic, medical, and surgical treatment options.
Saint Francis Hospital’s neurosurgeons, otolaryngologists, and cranial base tumor specialists will coordinate a medical plan of action to remove your pituitary tumor. With endoscopic cranial base surgery or endonasal endoscopy, highly skilled surgeons will access and remove your tumor through your nasal passage. This leading-edge technology allows your surgeons to access the tumor without harming other important nearby structures, such as the brain, optic nerve, or carotid arteries.
Saint Francis Hospital’s surgeons are highly skilled in correcting bone and cartilage malformations, such as cleft and palate conditions.
Saint Francis Hospital’s team treats a wide variety of spinal cord disorders, including tumors, infections (such as meningitis and polio), inflammatory diseases, autoimmune conditions, spina bifida and degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or spinal muscular atrophy.
Saint Francis Hospital’s doctors have vast experience treating herniated disks, stenosis, ankylosing spondylitis, and spine curvature disorders such as lordosis, kyphosis, and scoliosis
