The neurosurgery is the surgical discipline which is specialized in the central Nervous system and the peripheral Nervous system. The surgeons who practice it are called neurosurgeons . But it is only one speciality, they are authorized to operate on other cases.

Pathologies concerned

• Angiographie or arteriography
• Slipped disc
• cervical Hernia
• hypophyseal Adenoma
• Hydrocéphalie (valve of derivation poses)
• cranial Traumatism (Hématome S of the brain, fractures of the skull, etc)
• Traumatisme of the rachis with the vertebral fractures (in common with the Orthopédiste S)
• Tumeur of the brain and the intracranial cerebellum
• Anévrisme and the whole of encephalic arteriovenous malformations
• méningée Hémorragie and hématome encephalic
• Parkinson's disease
• Surgery of the pain
• Craniopharyngiome
• Neurofibromatose

History of the neurosurgery

• Jean-Martin Charcot

See too

• Neurology
• French company of Neurosurgery
• Association of the neurosurgeons of Quebec

Simple: Neurosurgery