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Neurosurgery is the study and surgical treatment of diseases of the nervous system. The nervous system includes:
- Brain and spinal cord (and their coverings)
- Cranial nerves connected to the eyes, face, ears, nose and throat
- Peripheral nerves which supply the arms and legs
- Muscles of the body
- Autonomic nerves which innervate the internal organs including the blood vessels and sweat glands
Diseases and Conditions Treated in Neurosurgery
A
B
- Back pain (neck, mid- or low-back)
- Basilar artery stenosis, blockage, or dissection
- Behavioral changes
- Bell's palsy
- Benign intracranial hypertension
- Binswanger disease
- Blackouts (if seizures are being considered)
- Blepharospasm
- Brachial plexitis
- Brachial plexus neuropathy
- Bradbury-Eggleston syndrome
- Brain aneurysm
- Brain injury
- Brain metastases with unknown site of primary
- Brain tumors
- Brown-Sequard syndrome
- Bulbar palsy (progressive)
- Bulging disk
C
D
- Degenerative disk
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Demyelinating polyneuropathy or polyradiculoneuropathy
- Demyelinating Disease
- Dermatomyositis
- Devic's syndrome or disease
- Diabetic amyotrophy
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Diffuse Lewy body disease
- Diplopia
- Disk disease
- Disk space infection or diskitis
- Dissection, basilar or carotid
- Disseminated encephalomyelitis (acute)
- Double vision
- Drop attacks
- Dysarthria
- Dysautonomia or dysautonomic neuropathy
- Dysesthesia
- Dyskinesia
- Dysphagia alone or with muscle disease, myasthenia, or Lambert-Eaton disease
- Dysphasia
- Dyspnea with muscle disease, myasthenia, or Lambert-Eaton disease
- Dystonia
E
F
G
- Gait disturbance or unsteadiness
- Genetic disorders of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
- Gerstmann-Straussler-Schenker (GSS) disease or syndrome
- Giant cell arteritis
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Glioma
- Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
- Granulomatous vasculitis of CNS
- Guillain Barré syndrome
H
I
- Ice pick pain headache
- Intracerebral or intracranial hemorrhage (ICH)
- Idiopathic hypersomnia
- Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension
- Imbalance
- Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
- Incoordination
- Infarct (cerebral)
- Inflammatory myopathy
- Inherited neuropathies
- Intracranial hemorrhage
L
- Lambert-Eaton Syndrome
- Leukodystrophy
- Leukoencephalopathy (progressive multifocal) (PML)
- Lewy body disease
- Limb girdle dystrophy
- Limbic encephalitis
- Low-back pain
- Lumbar pain
- Lumbar radiculopathy
- Lumbar spinal stenosis
- Lumbar spondylosis
- Lumbosacral plexopathy
- Lyme disease with cranial nerve palsy, meningitis, or myelopathy
- Lymphoma, brain or spinal cord
M
- Malformation, (arteriovenous, cavernous, venous, brain, or spine)
- McArdle's disease
- Median neuropathy
- Medulloblastoma
- Memory changes
- Meningioma
- Meningitis
- Metabolic myopathy
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Mid-back pain
- Migraine
- Mild cognitive impairment
- Mitochondrial myopathy
- Mononeuritis multiplex
- Mononeuropathies
- Motor neuron disease
- Movement disorders
- Moyamoya disease
- Multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- Multifocal motor neuropathy with or without conduction block
- Multi-infarct dementia
- Multiple mononeuropathies
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Multiple system atrophy (MSA)
- Muscle atrophy, fasciculations, twitching, or spasms
- Muscle weakness
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myasthenic syndrome
- Myelopathy, spondylotic
- Myelopathy, progressive non-spondylotic
- Myoclonus
- Myoglobinuria with muscle disease
- Myopathy
- Myositis
- Myotonia congenita
- Myotonia dystrophica
- Myotonic disorders or dystrophy
N
- Narcolepsy
- Neck pain
- Neuralgic amyotrophy
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neurogenic bowel or bladder dysfunction with or without obvious cause
- Neuro-infectious disease
- Neuromyelitis optica
- Neuropathies
- Neurosarcoidosis
- Neurosyphilis
- Nonvasculitic autoimmune inflammatory meningoencephalitis (NAIM)
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
- Numbness and tingling
- Nystagmus
O
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Oculomotor (third cranial nerve) palsy
- Oligodendroglioma
- Optic neuritis
- Orthostatic hypotension or intolerance
P
- Pachymeningitis (hypertrophic)
- Papilledema
- Paraneoplastic disorder of nervous system
- Paraparesis or paraplegia
- Parasitic brain abscess
- Parasomnia
- Paresthesias
- Parkinsonism
- Parkinson's disease
- Pediatric brain tumors
- Pediatric hydrocephalus
- Periodic limb movement disorder
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Peripheral neuropathy associated with monoclonal gammopathy
- Peroneal neuropathy
- Pick's disease
- Pinched nerve in spine
- Pineal tumor
- Pituitary tumor
- Polymyositis
- Polyneuropathy
- Polyradiculopathy
- Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA)
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- Post-polio syndrome
- Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
- Primary lateral sclerosis
- Primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
- Prion disease
- Progressive bulbar palsy
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
- Progressive nonfluent aphasia
- Progressive nonspondylotic myelopathy
- Progressive pseudobulbar palsy
- Progressive cortical visual dysfunction syndrome
- Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
- Pseudobulbar palsy (progressive)
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Ptosis
- Pulsatile tinnitus
- Pure autonomic failure
Q
- Quadriparesis or quadriplegia (not due to trauma or injury)
R
- Radial neuropathy
- Radiculopathy
- Recurrent meningitis
- REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
- Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rhabdomyolysis with muscle disease
- Ruptured disk
S
- Sarcoidosis of nervous system
- Scapuloperoneal dystrophy
- Sciatica
- Sciatic neuropathy
- Secondary brain tumor
- Seizure surgery
- Semantic dementia
- Seizures
- Sensory neuropathy
- Shy-Drager syndrome
- SLE with central nervous system involvement
- Slurred speech
- Small fiber neuropathy
- Small vessel white matter disease
- Spasticity
- Speech disturbance
- Spells (excluding TIA's)
- Spina bifida
- Spinal abscess
- Spinal arteriovenous
malformations
- Spinal cord disease
- Spinal cord metastases with unknown site of primary
- Spinal cord tumor
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Spinal stenosis
- Spinocerebellar disease or degeneration
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylosis
- Spondylotic myelopathy
- Stiff-man syndrome or stiff-person syndrome
- Stroke
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)
- Subdural hemorrhage or hematoma (SDH)
- Supranuclear palsy
- Syringomyelia
T
- Tardive dyskinesia
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Temporal arteritis
- Thalamic pain
- Third nerve palsy
- Thoracic radiculopathy
- Tic douloureux
- Tics
- Tingling and numbness
- Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
- Torticollis
- Tourette syndrome
- Toxoplasmosis of central nervous system
- Transient global amnesia (TGA)
- Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
- Transverse myelitis
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Tremor
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Tuberculosis of central nervous system
U
- Ulnar neuropathy
- Unsteadiness of gait
V
- Vascular headache
- Vasculitis of central nervous system
- Venous angioma
- Venous malformation
- Venous thrombosis (cerebral, brain)
- Vertebral artery stenosis, blockage or dissection
- Vertebrobasilar insufficiency
- Vertigo
- Visual loss
- Visual problems without eye disease
- Vocal cord paralysis
W
- Weakness of muscles (not entire body)
- Wegener's granulomatosis involving the nervous system
- Whipple's disease
- Writer's cramp
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons also work in conjunction with other specialists at Mayo Clinic in the following areas:
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