NEUROSURGERY (BRAIN AND NERVE SURGERY)
Neurosurgery is known as "Brain and Nerve Surgery" with its practical use in our language.
As a dictionary meaning, it consists of the combination of the words neuron = nerve, surgery = surgery. In fact, this department is a medical specialty that deals with the surgical treatments of all elements that make up the nervous system (brain, brain stem, spine, spinal cord and peripheral nerves).
It is most accurate to define it as "Cerebral Spinal Cord and Nerve Surgery" in Turkish.
Although it is a definition, it is known as "Neurosurgery" in practical life. Originating from inside or outside the brain, brain stem, or spinal cord tissue
neurosurgery;
pressure-forming "tumors",
"vascular diseases" of vascular origin, such as aneurysm (ballooning), arteriovenous malformation (AVM), cavernoma of the vessels feeding the brain tissue or spinal cord, Congenital, meningocele, meningomyelocele, tethered cord, split spinal cord syndrome
etc. "congenital diseases" that develop during the formation of the nervous system, such as
In short, "hydrocephalus", which is characterized by an increase in the amount of fluid in the brain cavities and its crushing of the brain from the inside,
Spinal shifts called spondylolisthesis, especially waist and neck hernias, spinal
"all kinds of spine and spinal cord diseases" such as spinal canal narrowing called stenosis,
"Pituitary tumors" that cause hormonal disorders,
All kinds of head and spinal cord "injuries" (traffic accident, falling from height, gunshot wounds etc.)
all kinds of injuries",
Again, "trap neuropathies" characterized by nerve damage caused by compression of peripheral nerves in certain anatomical regions such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), Ulnar Trap Neuropathies, Peroneal Trap Neuropathies, Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome,
Trauma, tumor, hypertension, etc. It deals with the SURGICAL TREATMENT of "brain hemorrhages" that develop due to various reasons.
