neurosurgery
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Indications
- nervous system disease refractory to medical therapy
Management
- avoid hypotonic fluids
- D5W-1/2 normal saline 1st line treatment after head trauma
- add IV desmopressin if urinary output is excessiveor electrolyte abnormalities develop[2]
- intermittent pneumatic compression immediately following cranial surgery[2]
Notes
- also see surgery
More general terms
More specific terms
- ablative surgery
- aspiration of spinal cord cyst/syrinx
- autologous epidural blood patch
- biopsy, spinal cord
- brain biopsy
- burr hole
- burr hole for evacuation of subdural hematoma
- burr hole for ventricular catheter
- cerebrospinal fluid shunt
- chemodenervation
- corpus callostomy
- cranial decompression
- cranial decompression posterior fossa
- craniectomy
- cranioplasty
- craniotomy
- decompression of spinal cord
- extradural resection, anterior cranial fossa
- extradural resection, base of skull/C1-C3
- extradural resection, base of skull/cavernous sinus/clivus
- extradural resection, infratemporal fossa/parapharyngeal space/petrous apex
- hemispherectomy
- hypophysectomy
- intradural resectioD, base of skull/cavernous sinus/clivus
- intradural resection, base of skull/C1-C3
- intraoperative neurophysiology testing
- laminoplasty
- laminotomy/laminectomy with decompression of nerve root
- nerve avulsion
- nerve pedicle transfer
- nerve repair
- nerve transfer
- neurectasis; neurotony
- neurectomy
- neuroplasty
- neurotomy; radiofrequency neurotomy; facet neurotomy
- pallidotomy
- reduction of craniomegalic skull
- repair of CSF leakage
- repair of meningocele
- repair of myelomeningocele
- resection of neurofibroma
- resection of neuroma
- spinal cordotomy
- stereotactic computer-assisted navigational procedure
- stereotactic lesion of spinal cord
- subdural tap through fontanelle/suture
- surgical neurolysis
- suture of nerve
- suture of nerve plexus
- sympathectomy
- temporal lobectomy
- thalamotomy
- tractotomy
- trans-sphenoidal surgery
- transcranial decompression of orbit
- transcranial orbital exploration with removal of lesion
- vagotomy