What makes a doctor come to a conclusion about a diagnosis and a treatment? What determines the need for a surgery or whether some other modality of treatment is an option?Is surgical decision making binary? The internet is a scary
What is it we do?
If you act like you know what you’re going, you can do anything you want – except neurosurgery.
Surgical Technology – Brain stem tumor in a child
This story, which a patient’s family has been gracious enough to let me write, is of a boy with a brain tumor. In the brainstem. This is where we as neurosurgeons used every little bit of technology available in neurosurgery
Stroke of Bad Luck Part 2…
… or where we discuss what to do. Let’s begin small and first focus on the transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs. These as we saw were blockages of smaller vessels in the brain that the body manages to clear away
Stroke of Bad Luck. Part 1
The brain is a wondrous thing. It is the source of joy, and greed, sloth, envy, pride, wrath, lust and gluttony, and any other sins one could think of. But every once in a while things don’t go as planned.
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia or tic douloureux is the condition where patients experience severe pain along one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve (V nerve). This is not an uncommon disorder but patients often present after multiple consultations for dental disorders
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Minimally invasive spine surgery was born from the idea that surgeons should be able to do more with less harm. Early surgeons were limited in their explorations of the human body by the lack of safe anesthesia, excessive blood loss,
Neuronavigation and Image Guided Neurosurgery
The future of Neurosurgery – Image Guided Surgery. Brain tumors have always been a dreaded diagnosis to give to patients. They have long implied patients with significant post operative deficits and poor quality of life with or without surgery. And,