Neurosurgery

Different from other spine conditions, a spine or brain tumor requires specialized surgical expertise. Whether you have a pituitary tumor, spine tumor, or skull base brain tumor, our expert multispecialty team works together to provide the best care for you. They meet with you and your family to discuss treatment options, coordinate next steps, and answer questions. Your case is also reviewed by the Neuro-Oncology Tumor Board, ensuring a comprehensive treatment plan tailored to your unique needs.

For patients whose condition resists medication, this approach uses a medical device similar to a cardiac pacemaker to deliver controlled electrical stimulation to the brain. The treatment is FDA-approved for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Many experience relief from tremors, rigidity, slow movement, stiffness, and balance problems.

Whether your surgery involves a small portion of the brain tissue or as much as half, our neurosurgeons specialize in these complex and life-changing procedures, safely and effectively reducing or even eliminating your seizures altogether.

For patients whose conditions resist medication, this incisionless outpatient procedure uses precisely targeted ultrasound waves to specific areas of the brain, offering effective and often immediate tremor relief. Corewell Health is the first in the state to offer incisionless brain surgery using focused ultrasound technology for patients living with essential tremor and tremor caused by Parkinson’s disease. For more information or to refer a patient, email fusinfo@corewellhealth.org.

Requiring no cutting or incisions, Gamma Knife® treats brain tumors, vascular malformations, and functional disorders without the risks of open surgery. Your team will deliver a high dose of radiation to the target area while sparing the surrounding area. Recovery is quick, and the treatment is generally administered on an outpatient basis.

Far less invasive than an open surgery, Corewell Health offers multiple minimally invasive neurosurgery options. Using laparoscopic devices, this surgery typically results in smaller incisions, less pain, greater accuracy, and faster recovery.

If medication and other pain management techniques aren’t working, MCS can provide significant relief. When your brain is sending the wrong signal to your nerves and causing you pain, this procedure sends electrical impulses as a way of providing relief.

For circulatory disorders of the brain and spinal cord, our neurovascular specialists provide the highest level of medical and surgical care. If you are suffering from a cerebrovascular condition such as a brain aneurysm, stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformation, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or carotid artery disease, our advanced treatment technologies will potentially minimize the impact on your brain and may even reverse the course of serious injury.

Depending on the severity of your pain, you may require surgery. Our specialists will create a surgical plan to help you recover essential function and return to your regular activities.

Skull base surgery is a minimally invasive, highly specialized approach for the treatment of growths located on the underside of the brain, the base of the skull, or the upper spine. This technique results in a lower risk of infection and a greater opportunity to return to normal life.

Using SRS, our team will treat small lesions in the brain and head, as well as in other areas such as lung, liver, prostate, spine, and pancreas, by delivering precisely focused, high-dose X-ray beams to a small, targeted area.

Our team of brain injury specialists use the newest technology to diagnose and monitor the affected area(s) of the brain and determine which surgical procedure will give you the best chance at a successful recovery.

This medical treatment uses a surgically implanted device to send mild electrical pulses to the vagus nerve, helping to reduce the occurrence of seizures and manage other neurological conditions.