Brain surgery
Neurosurgery is the science branch that deals with the treatment of brain and nerve diseases, tumors originating from or pressing on the brain and spinal cord tissue, as well as the treatment of back and neck hernia, head and spinal cord injuries, cerebral vascular occlusions, aneurysm, cerebral hemorrhages and vessels feeding the brain and spinal cord.
• The Libyan Turkish Hospital neurosurgery unit provides diagnosis and treatment services for many diseases. These are:
• Degenerative spine diseases surgery: Lumbar and cervical disc surgery, Lumbar narrow canal surgery, cervical narrow canal surgery, degenerative spondylolisthesis surgery
• Spine traumas, upper cervical traumas, halvest traction and fixation, lower cervical traumas, anterior corpectomy plate stabilization, posterior lateral mass stabilization, posterior decompression and stabilization in thoracic and lumbar traumas, surgery of cervical and lumbar gunshot injuries
• Spinal infections: Abscess drainages, surgical treatments of Pott's disease, vertebral osteomyelitis and spondylodiscitis
• Spinal tumors: Extramedullary tumor resections, surgery of spinal metastases
• Head traumas: surgery of epidural, subdural, intra-cerebral hemorrhages, decompression in traumas with decompressive craniotome, compression fractures, cranioplasty, surgery and management of cranial gunshot injuries
• Cranial Tumors, meningioma excision, glial tumor resection
• Pediatric malformations, Meningocele, meningomyelocele, encephalocele surgery, hydrocephalus shunt surgery, Chiari malformation, posterior fossa decompression
• Peripheral nerve surgery, surgery of entrapment neuropathies, surgery of carpal tunnel, tarsal tunnel, cubital groove and peroneal syndrome, surgical repair of nerve injuries, surgery of brachial plexus injuries, surgical treatment of sciatic nerve damage due to intramuscular injection traumas, surgery of peripheral nerve sheath tumors.
