Centres of excellence
Neurosurgery
Brain and skull-base surgery supported by advanced neuro-imaging.
Neurosurgery covers the brain, the spinal cord and the nerves. Cases are individual to a degree unusual even in medicine, and general information only goes so far before a surgeon needs to see your scans.
How these cases are handled
We put your imaging in front of a neurosurgeon before travel is discussed, because whether something is operable, and whether it should be operated on, determines everything else. Where the tumour type is not yet known, the histology after surgery drives the treatment that follows, and we hold the case open until it arrives.
What to send us
The full MRI or CT study on disc or by transfer — not screenshots — along with any previous surgical or biopsy reports.
Treatments in Neurosurgery
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Brain Tumour Surgery
Surgical removal of a brain tumour, planned from your imaging and often supported by intraoperative navigation. Histology results follow after surgery.
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Epilepsy Surgery
For seizures that two or more medicines have failed to control — removing, disconnecting or electrically interrupting the part of the brain the seizures start i...
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Deep Brain Stimulation
Fine electrodes placed in a specific target deep in the brain, driven by a pacemaker-like generator in the chest — it steadies movement, it does not cure the di...
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Cerebral Aneurysm Treatment
Sealing a weak, ballooning point in a brain artery — by a clip placed through the skull or by coils and stents threaded up from the wrist or groin.
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Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Neither gamma-coloured nor a knife: around 192 weak beams of radiation crossing at one point inside the head, with no incision, usually one session, usually hom...