Mayo Clinic's approach
At Mayo Clinic, top-ranked doctors and specialists from the Brain Tumor Program work together with Mayo Clinic doctors and surgeons trained in conditions of the nervous system (neurologists and neurosurgeons). Mayo Clinic's world-renowned neurosurgeons are trained in brain surgery and other areas and have experience performing craniotomies to treat a variety of brain conditions.
Mayo Clinic doctors and surgeons have experience diagnosing and treating conditions that may require keyhole craniotomy. These conditions include brain tumors, brain aneurysms, seizures, vascular malformations, bleeding in the brain, brain swelling and more.
Collaboration
Mayo Clinic healthcare professionals in neurology and neurosurgery work with a multidisciplinary team of experts in many specialties to provide comprehensive care for adults and children who need a craniotomy. They work with experts in brain and nervous system imaging (radiologists) and with experts who specialize in the ear, nose, throat. and head and neck (otolaryngologists). They also work with radiation oncology, pain medicine, and physical medicine and rehabilitation experts.
Specialists in Mayo Clinic's Brain Tumor Program offer personalized and comprehensive care to people with brain tumors.
Having all of this subspecialized expertise in a single place, focused on you, means that you're not just getting one opinion. Your care is discussed among the team. Your test results are available quickly. Appointments are scheduled in coordination, and the most highly specialized brain tumor surgeons in the world are all working together to determine what's best for you. What might take months to do elsewhere can typically happen in a matter of days at Mayo Clinic.
Technology and expertise
Mayo Clinic healthcare professionals in neurology, neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery are on the leading edge of treating brain conditions. Mayo Clinic is one of the few medical centers in the country to offer awake brain surgery. Mayo Clinic's innovative approaches also include robotics, intraoperative MRI, computer-assisted brain surgery and deep brain stimulation.
Mayo Clinic professionals use state-of-the-art facilities that include an intraoperative MRI suite, comprehensive intraoperative neuromonitoring and image-guided surgery.
Expertise and rankings
Experience
Mayo Clinic's highly specialized neurosurgical teams perform a large number of craniotomies, including keyhole craniotomies, each year. When integrated with ongoing research and education, this results in broad expertise in the imaging and treatment of diseases affecting people of all ages.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, ranks among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery and for cancer in the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Mayo Clinic Children's in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024–2025 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings. With the emphasis on collaborative care, specialists interact very closely with their colleagues across all sites.