Columbia Neurosurgery » tumors http://www.columbianeurosurgery.org Columbia University Department of Neurological Surgery Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:06:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pediatric Neurosurgery Center http://www.columbianeurosurgery.org/specialties/pediatric-neurosurgery/ http://www.columbianeurosurgery.org/specialties/pediatric-neurosurgery/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:30:34 +0000 Brigitte Matsuoka http://beta.columbianeurosurgery.com/?page_id=46 The Pediatric Neurosurgery Center specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children with a range of neurosurgical disorders, such as brain tumors, spasticity, movement disorders, intractable epilepsy, hydrocephalus, craniosynostosis, head injuries, and spina bifida, as well as other cranial malformations and spinal deformities. Our surgeons work as part of a multidisciplinary team of pediatric practitioners, offering a range of specialized expertise that can only be found at a hospital dedicated solely to children.

The Pediatric Neurosurgery Center is internationally recognized for its outstanding care of infants, children, and young adults with diseases or injuries to the brain or spinal cord. Members of our team are actively involved in clinical research on pediatric brain tumors, supported by the Pediatric Brain Tumor Fund. Studies consistently demonstrate that experienced surgeons at neuroscience centers of excellence achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

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Surgery is not recommended for all spinal conditions; it is only recommended when noninvasive measures have been tried and have failed. For example, surgery may be recommended for persistent back or neck pain. Surgery may also address conditions in which a nerve or the spinal cord is compressed and neurological function is compromised, or if the spine has become unstable due to disease.

Our surgical team offers the highest level of expertise in an array of sophisticated spinal procedures for the treatment of disk problems, stenosis, tumors, fractures, deformity, and instability. For example, our surgeons are highly trained in minimally invasive techniques including microsurgical and endovascular options, such as decompression lumbar laminectomy; microdiscectomy; embolization of spinal arteriovenous malformations or hypervascular tumors; vertebroplasty; and kyphoplasty.

Research has consistently shown that experienced surgeons and practitioners at centers of excellence achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

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