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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.
Click here to download Dr. Metzger's presentation to IETF about deep brain stimulation surgery for essential tremor
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