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Southwest Neurosurgical Associates


Patient Information

Patient Education Animations:

Neurologic disorders we treat include (but are not limited to) the following diagnoses:

Brain

  • Malignant brain tumors including gliomas and brain metastases
  • Benign brain tumors including meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, pituitary adenomas
  • Vascular disorders including arteriovenous malformation (AVM), cavernous hemangiomas, and cerebral aneurysms
  • Functional disorders including trigeminal neuralgia, Parkinson disease, and essential tremor
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Chiari malformation

Spine – we treat a broad spectrum of spinal disorders including those affecting the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine

  • Disk herniation and degenerative disk disease
  • Stenosis
  • Spondylolisthesis and instability
  • Spinal tumors

Procedures we perform include (but are not limited to) the following::

  • Gamma Knife radiosurgery
  • Craniotomy
  • Stereotactic biopsy
  • Trans-sphenoidal resection of pituitary adenoma
  • Ventriculoperitoneal shunt
  • Deep brain stimulation
  • Microdiskectomy
  • Anterior cervical diskectomy with fusion
  • Posterior cervical fusion
  • Lumbar decompression
  • Lumbar fusion
  • XLIF
  • X-Stop

Patient Education information on these disorders and procedures can be found at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons website and the Spine Universe website.

 

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500 Walter NE, Suite 501 • Albuquerque, NM 87102
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