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Head of Department
Prof. Dr. Falk Oppel
Bethel
Burgsteig 13
33617 Bielefeld
phone 0049 | (0)521 | 772-78350
fax 0049 | (0)521 | 772-78374
E-mail Falk.Oppel@evkb.de
The Clinic for Neurosurgery is a maximum-care facility, which - with around 2,600 operations per year - is one of the largest neurological centres in Europe. The Clinic also forms an integral part of the interdisciplinary Trauma Centre, in which severely injured and poly-traumatic patients are treated.
The clinic routinely performs specialised neurosurgical operations, especially in connection with diseases of the brain, the spinal cord, the entire spinal column and the peripheral nerves. The diagnostic spectrum includes fMRI, MRI, CT, myelography, electrophysiology, intra-operative monitoring and neuro-navigation.
Special clinical expertise:
- Surgical treatment of blood vessel malformations in the brain and spinal cord (aneurysm, angioma)
- Brain and spinal cord tumour surgery
- Stereo-tactically guided sample removal with brain tumours
- Operations at the base of the skull and in the cerebellopontile angle (acoustic neurinoma, neurovascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia)
- Endoscopic operations for hydrocephalus (“water on the brain”)
- Stabilising operations of the whole spinal column (segmental instability, slipping of vertabrae, tumour instability, vertabral fractures, rheumatic instability)
- Intervertabral disc prostheses
- Operations of osteoporotic fractures using a minimally-invasive technique (kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty)
- Pain surgery (implantation of nerve stimulators and medication pumps)
The clinic services, which are provided on an interdisciplinary basis in co-operation with the Department for Neuroradiology, include the treatment of blood vessel malformations by means of catheter procedures (endovascular procedures such as embolisation of aneurysmata or angiomas). Epilepsy surgery is also organised on an interdisciplinary basis. The operative treatment of seizure patients takes place in cooperation with the Bethel Epilepsy Centre. The exacting pre-surgical diagnostics and aftercare of patients who have undergone surgery is carried out at the Mara Clinic.
Our neurosurgeons have also made a name for themselves in the fields of science and research. Neurosurgery is one of the most sensitive areas of medicine, because it quite literally “gets on people’s nerves” and, as with cardiac surgery, touches the core of our existence. Our neurosurgeons therefore see it as their duty to work at the forefront of medical progress and be instrumental in establishing new therapies. Current examples of this are new treatment techniques for osteoporosis, kyphoplasia and vertebroplasia as well as dynamic intervertebral disc replacement.
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