Neurosurgery is the medical specialty that deals with the treatment of adults, children, neonates and, in recent years, of fetuses, patients with diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, such as hydrocephalus, tumors, vascular and degenerative diseases, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injuries capable of surgical approach, as well as neurosurgical treatment of epilepsy, pain, movement disorders (such as Parkinson’s disease, dystonias, Tourette’s syndrome).
These are spinal decompression surgeries in which we remove a bone structure from the vertebra called “blade”. It can be performed in several spinal diseases, such as herniated discs, canal narrowing, tumors and infections.
In most cases, surgeries for herniated lumbar or dorsal discs do not require fixation. Removing the material that compresses the nerve root is enough to improve pain. The conventional technique (discectomy) can be used for this, or minimally invasive techniques such as endoscopic approach, chemonucleolysis (injection of substance to "dissolve" the hernia), nucleoplasty (removal of disc material from the center of the intervertebral space), by laser (which burns and aspirates the hernia), IDET-Intradiscal Endothermal Therapy (where heat burns the hernia which is then aspirated).
