Treatment introduction
Endoscopic brain surgery uses a light source and optical fibre video camera, which is inserted through a small incision to enter the skull and the ventricles of the brain to remove tissue or for treatment. The lens of the camera is attached to the screen monitor to display images magnified by 50 times the actual size.
The purpose of this surgery is to collect nerve tissue through biopsy or to treat the lesion while reducing the size of the outer wound to decrease the harm caused to surrounding tissue.Compared to traditional brain surgery, endoscopic brain surgery results in less brain retraction and a comparatively stronger magnifying effect to result in safer surgery. At the same time, a smaller wound means less pain and a much shorter recovery period.
The most common surgeries carried out by the E-Da Hospital neurosurgery team follows below:
1. The endoscope is inserted through the nose to treat lesions in the brain such as a pituitary tumour, craniopharyngioma, meningioma, chordoma, cerebrospinal fluid leak
2. Endoscopic brain surgery can treat brain tumours or hydrocephalus
Indications
Cerebrovascular diseases: brain aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation, Moyamoya disease, carotid artery stenosis.
Features
Cerebrovascular disorders can be detected through medical imaging tests such as CT, MRI, and invasive Angiogram.
Featured treatments include:
-surgical and embolization treatment for intracranial aneurysms
-gamma knife radiosurgery
-surgical and embolization treatment for brain arteriovenous malformations extracranial–intracranial anastomosis for Moyamoya disease
-carotid stenting
-carotid endarterectomy
In addition, the E-Da Healthcare neurosurgery team's success in treating cerebrovascular disorders is aided by technological advances in surgical navigation, intra-operative CT, and state-of-the-art surgical techniques to accurately target and treat the most complex neurovascular diseases.