The Neurological Surgery Department conducts clinical practice in the general field of neurosurgery. We treat the following conditions:

Headache

When there are no other symptoms besides headache, it is rather rare for abnormality to be found in the brain or the skull. Such lesions usually cause other symptoms in addition to headache.

Cerebrovascular Disease

The term “stroke” includes conditions such as cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Symptoms of such conditions include paralysis, gait disorder, speech disorder, sudden onset severe headaches and vomiting, disturbance of consciousness or convulsions appear. Sometimes mild paralysis symptoms will appear, but disappear within a few minutes. However, please consider this as a warning sign of a possible serious condition, and visit us for a consultation.

Brain Tumor

Symptoms vary depending on the type of tumor and its location. If metastatic cancer to the brain is detected in its early stages, it can be treated.

Head Injury

Various kinds of damage, such as intracranial hematoma, brain contusion, depressed skull fracture, liquorrhea, and orbital floor blowout fracture, can be treated via surgery.

Spinal Disease

Spinal disease tends to appear as cervical spondylosis, spinal cord tumor, sensory disturbance of one or both upper limbs, muscular weakness and gait disorder.

Inflammatory Disease

Inflammatory disease refers to disorders in which pus accumulates in the skull, such as brain abscesses and subdural abscesses. In some cases, the disease develops from infections such as otitis media or empyema in the adjacent ears and nose, or the disease may result from head injury. In other cases, it may come through the bloodstream from lesions in the heart, lung or other parts of the body.

Congenital Abnormalities

These include disorders such as hydrocephalus and meningocele. While not always the case, presence of conditions such as a comparatively large head or bumps on the buttocks may indicate congenital abnormalities.

Convulsive Disorder

Although this disorder has various causes, for a patient who did not experience convulsions in childhood and has had the onset of convulsions in adulthood, hidden brain lesions are likely, requiring careful examination.

Involuntary Movement

Involuntary movement is found in conditions such as Parkinson's disease and intention tremor. Treatment is primarily based on orally administered medicine, but in cases where medicine is ineffective or patients can not take the medicine because of the risk of side effects, special surgical treatment may be very effective for some patients. Our department has been performing such operations for more than 20 years.

Facial Paralysis

Many cases of facial paralysis and twitching which appear only on the right or left half of the face can be treated by surgery.

Trigeminal Neuralgia

When treatment by medication is not sufficiently effective for facial pain, surgical treatment can be an option.

Our department responds to emergency cases, such as stroke and head injury, by utilizing the comprehensive capabilities of our general hospital. For patients with involuntary movements due to illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, we have established a record of successful treatments by examining each case carefully and performing appropriate surgical procedures.

Furthermore, we have striven to improve the efficiency of our emergency treatments since the 1980s, through innovations such as transmission of CT images by videophone and establishment of hospital-to-hospital networks.