Neurosurgery ( Division of Surgery )
न्यूरोसर्जरी

Neurosurgery ( Division of Surgery )/ न्यूरोसर्जरी

Reachable(8:30am- 4pm) at 011-2396621-27,Ext- 516(General OPD on Wednesday), 401(Pvt OPD)

Neurosurgery is a medical specialty that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and cerebrovascular system.

Several eminent neurosurgeons from all over India and abroad have worked and been trained at the Department of Neurosurgery at St Stephen’s Hospital over the past decades.

We offer expertise driven disease-specific and patient-focused approach to care for all sub-specialities of brain and spine surgery for all age groups employing both minimally invasive and open neurosurgical techniques.

Our fully integrated model of well equipped Emergency department, dedicated Neurosurgical ICU, specialized wards and highly-trained intensivists; ensures continuous excellent standard of care, and strengthens our research abilities.

Our Stroke unit is an integrated unit of doctors from the Neurosurgical Department, Neurology department, and Neuro-interventionists (who are experts in treating various kinds of Cerebral Stroke with modern therapeutic modalities) delivering par excellence emergency care in stroke which is imperative to improve long term outcome.

NEUROSURGERY PERFORMED AT OUR CENTRE

We regularly perform  BRAIN NEUROSURGERY for:

• Traumatic brain injury /Road traffic accident/fall/ सर/ दिमाग़ की चोट
• Brain Tumour / दिमाग़ का ट्यूमर/ रसोली(e.g, glioblastoma, astrocytoma, cancer spread)
• Stroke / पक्षाघात / ब्रेन स्ट्रोक
• Bleeding in brain/ मस्तिष्क रक्त्स्त्राव (Cerebral Aneurysm,Arteriovenous Malformations)
• Vision loss (Hydrocephalus, pituitary tumour etc)

NEUROSURGERY FOR SPINE AND PERIPHERAL NERVE CONDITIONS

that we treat include, but are not limited to the following:

• Low back pain/ कमर दर्द /Degenerative Back Conditions
• Neck pain/ सर्विकल दर्द / गर्दन का दर्द /Degenerative Neck Conditions
• Peripheral Nerve Injury- excision & reconstruction surgery/ नस की चोट की सर्जरी
• Radiating leg or arm pain/ हाथ पैरो में नस का दर्द
• Spine injuries (accidents)/ रीड की चोट
• Loss of power in hands or legs (tumour, disc disease etc)/ हाथ परों की ताक़त कम होना
• Spinal Tumours / रीड का कैन्सर / गाँठ/ रसोली
• Herniated disc / डिस्क स्लिप

ENDOVASCULAR NEUROSURGERY PROCEDURE

• Coiling/नसों के अंदर से दिमाग़ की तकलीफ़ का ईलाज
• Carotid angioplasty/ stenting / दिमाग़ की नली खोलना

PAIN AND FUNCTION ASSISTING NEUROSURGERY

• Seizures or Epilepsy / दौरे / मिर्गी
• Headache/ सर दर्द
• Hand/leg numbness or burning sensation (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome)/ हाथ पैरो में झनझनाहट (कार्पल टनल)
• Deep brain stimulation for refractory Parkinsonism (पर्किंसोनिस्म) and other movement disorders
• Implanting Pumps for pain relief in nerve and intractable back pain
• Interventional spine therapies: nerve and facet blocks
• Management of chronic pain post trauma, amputation due to nerve injury

PAEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY/ बच्चों की दिमाग़ / रीढ़ की बीमारी की सर्जरी

• Childhood/by birth brain diseases (Chiari malformation etc)
• Hydrocephalus/ दिमाग़ में पानी भर जाना
• Cyst
• Trauma 
• Tumour 
• Cerebral palsy

DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES

• Biopsy for diagnosis and treatment of growth, swelling, infection. Done both under general anaesthesia and local anaesthesia and done by either endoscopic or open surgery
• State of art CT , MRI
• Electrophysiology study
• EEG
• Angiograms
• Myelography