Neurosurgical Options

Patients receiving neurological care at Banner Boswell Medical Center can be confident they are getting the most current and specialized treatments available. A multidisciplinary team of experts work together to present each patient with an individualized treatment plan.

Common treatment options available at Banner Boswell:

• Anterior approach: corpectomy, diskectomy (with/without instrumentation)
• Application of halo brace for unstable cervical fractures
• Burr holes for chronic subdural hematoma
• Craniotomy for intracranial hematoma (epidural, subdural, and intracerebral)
• Craniotomy for ruptured intracranial aneurysms
• Deep brain stimulation for movement and affective disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor
• Implantation of reservoir (spinal-subarachnoid, ventricular) for chemotherapy, infection, and/or pain control
• Peripheral nerve procedures including biopsy, carpal tunnel decompression and ulnar nerve anterior transposition
• Posterior approach: laminectomy, fusion (with/without instrumentation)
• Shunting (ventriculoperitoneal, ventriculoatrial, spinal-peritoneal, subdural-peritoneal)
• Spinal surgeries (cervical, thoracic, lumbosacral and minimally invasive) for congenital defects, trauma,  degenerative spine, tumor, and/or abscess
• Stereotactic (frame and frameless) resection and/or biopsy of brain lesions
• Transphenoidal microsurgical excision of pituitary tumors
• Trigeminal glycerol rhizolysis for trigeminal neuralgia
• Ventriculostomy

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