Neurosurgery & Spine Surgery

1. Accident and Trauma surgery for the brain and spine

• Craniotomy for extradural/subdural hematomas/contusions
• Fixations for spine fractures and dislocation

2. Spinal Surgery (For craniovertebral junction, cervical, thoracic and lumbar problems like intervertebral disc prolapse, spinal stenosis, atlantoaxial dislocation, basilar invagination, spinal dysraphism, tethered cord and myelomeningocele)

• Spinal decompression
• Disc arthroplasty/replacement
• Discectomy/foraminotomy
• Stabilisation & fusion of the spine
• Minimally invasive surgery of the spine
• Tumor resection/spinal reconstruction

3. Brain Tumor Surgery (For glioma, meningioma, pituitary adenoma, vestibular schwannoma, intraventricular tumours, craniopharyngioma, metastases)
• Biopsy
• Craniotomy
• Awake craniotomy
• Endoscopic/minimally invasive
• Microscopic and endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary tumor surgery

4. Skull base surgery (For skull base lesions, pituitary adenomas, craniopharyngiomas, meningiomas, clival chordomas, CSF rhinorrhea repairs)
• Anterior, middle, and posterior cranial fossa surgeries
• Combined neurosurgery/otolaryngology/maxillofacial procedures
• Endoscopic surgeries for skull base

5. Neurovascular Surgery
• Aneurysm clipping
• Arterio Venous Malformation (AVM) resection
• Cavernoma resection
• Carotid endarterectomy
• Surgical revascularization and bypass (Stroke and Moya Moya)

6. Peripheral nerve surgery
• Carpal tunnel release
• Ulnar nerve release

7. Micro vascular decompression
• Trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia

8. Hydrocephalus
• Shunt surgeries
• Endoscopic third ventriculostomy

9. Pediatric neurosurgery
• Pediatric tumours of the brain and spine
• Congenital malformations of the brain and spine
• Tethered cord
• Split cord malformations

10. Epilepsy surgery
• Adult and Pediatric epilepsy
• Anterior temporal lobectomy
• Amygdalo – hippocampectomy
• Corpus callosotomy
• Hemispherotomy
• Lesionectomy
• Hypothalamic hamartoma resection

If you have been looking for the best neurosurgeon in Kottayam to consult on a case, your search ends at Mar Sleeva Medicity Palai. We are known as the best neurology hospital in Kottayam for an excellent reason. The department boasts of some of the best neurologists in Kottayam to serve all patients competently.