Neurosurgery
Providing the most advanced skull base complex cranial and spinal neurosurgery.
Conditions treated:
- Adenomas (pituitary)
- All intracranial hemorrhages
- Aneurysms
- Arteriovenous malformations
- Astrocytomas
- Bowhunter syndrome
- Brain tumors
- Carcinomatous meningitis
- Carotid artery disease
- Cavernoma
- Chiari malformation
- CNS lymphoma
- Cranial and spinal trauma
- Craniocervical junction injury
- Cushing’s Disease
- Ependymomas
- Esthesioneuroblastomas
- Germ cell tumors
- Glomus tumors
- Hemangioblastoma
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Malignant glioblastoma multiforme
- Meningioma, acoustic neuroma, pituitary tumor, craniopharyngioma, skull base tumors, glioma
- Metastases
- Meningiomas
- Metastatic tumors to brain and spine
- Moyamoya disease
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neurosurgery in pregnancy
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
- Oligodendrogliomas
- Orbital tumors
- Peripheral nerve entrapment
- Pineal gland tumors
- Rathke’s cleft cysts
- Skull base tumors and minimally invasive cranial surgery (including endoscopic)
- Spinal and spinal cord tumors, metastases
- Spinal degenerative conditions
- Spinal oncology
- Stroke
- Trigeminal neuralgia and glossopharyngeal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm
- Vasospasm
- Vestibular schwannomas
- Von Hippel Lindau disease
Procedures performed:
Cerebrovascular
- Aneurysm treatment (including minimally invasive eyelid approaches)
- AVM treatment
- Carotid disease treatment (cerebral revascularization)
- Cerebral revascularization
- Cranial bypass procedures (ischemia and moyamoya disease)
- Endoscopic treatment of intracranial hemorrhages
Skull base tumor
- Endoscopic removal of pituitary tumors, craniopharyngiomas
Cranial nerve syndromes
- Microvascular decompression of cranial nerves (MVD) for trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, geniculate neuralgia
Tumor
- Minimally invasive of all brain tumors
- GammaTile® radiation therapy, placed at the time of resection, for malignant intracranial tumors
Spine
- Image-guided spinal surgery
- Minimally invasive removal of spinal cord tumors
Designations and Accreditations
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center has been designated as a North American Skull Base Society Multidisciplinary Team of Distinction.
Patient Stories
"Martini olive on a stick"
A young man thought his nail gun simply backfired. What he would soon find out would change everything.
"The hole in the side of my head"
When a 600 pound aerator with 6 inch prongs fell on a young man’s skull, several life-saving procedures ensued.
"Squeeze joy out of your day"
A grand mal seizure leads to a man’s diagnosis of a brain tumor, his surgery, and cancer treatment.
"He saved my life"
A talented skier hits a backflip jump that resulted in a serious spinal injury that nearly took his life.
"Someone needs to take out the garbage"
With only 50 cases a year in the U.S., this rare tumor effected a young boy’s breathing, speech, sleep, and sense of smell.