Neurosurgery
Casa di Cura San Rossore represents a center of excellence for Neurosurgery in Pisa.
In fact, he performs neurosurgical procedures for the treatment of all diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, but especially those complex and difficult-to-treat tumor, vascular, malformative, and disembiogenetic diseases affecting the deep parts of the brain and skull base:
- Meningiomas
- Neurinomas of all cranial nerves (acoustic, optic, oculomotor, trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, accessory, hypoglossal among the most relatively frequent)
- Jugular glomus tumors
- Hemangiopericytoma
- Chondromes and Chordomes
- Pituitary adenomas
- Epidermoids and Dermoids
- Craniopharyngiomas
- Neuroblastomas
- Pineal gland tumors
- Gliomas
- Arachnoid cysts
- Germinomes
- Arteriovenous malformations (Angiomas)
- Cavernous angiomas
- Cerebral aneurysms
- Neurovascular conflicts (Trigeminal, facial, glossopharyngeal, spinal accessory neuralgia), caused by abnormal contact between affected artery, vein, and nerve
Performance and therapy
The following spinal disorders are treated at the Casa di Cura San Rossore.
- Lumbago and lumbosciatica
- Lumbar disc hernia
- Cervical and Thoracic Disc Hernia
- Lumbar, Cervical and Thoracic Stenosis
- Lithic and degenerative spondylolisthesis
- Osteoporotic, traumatic and neoplastic vertebral fractures
- Primary or secondary vertebral neoplasms
- Spondylitic infections and spinal abscesses
- Spinal neurinomas and meningiomas and spinal cord neoplasms
- Adult degenerative kyphosis and scoliosis
- Idiopathic scoliosis of the adolescent
- Rheumatoid arthritis spinal pathology
The center specializes in:
- Treatment of spinal and nerve pain with echo and radioguided techniques
- Osteoporotic fracture treatment with vertebroplasty
- Microsurgical and minimally invasive treatment of lumbar and cervical degenerative pathology (disc herniations and stenosis)
- Open and/or minimally invasive treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesisLumbar spine arthrodesis surgery with open and/or minimally invasive technique with screw fixation and posterior( PLIF ,TLIF), lateral (XLIF) and anterior (ALIF)
- Anterior or posterior arthrodesis surgery of the cervical spine
- Vertebral excision and reconstruction for secondary vertebral neoplasms
- Microsurgical removal of spinal neurinomas or meningiomas
