Patient Education | The Institute of Brain and Spine Surgery

Patient Education Links

DISCLAIMER: These links provide general information about neurosurgery from many different sources and surgeons. For this reason, there are many different opinions related to pre-operative care, surgical judgement, surgical technique, post-operative care and others. The reader needs to discuss their personal issues with their surgeon. None of these sites are authoratative (ie, the final and only answer).

http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/abta/primer.htm

http://www.abta.org/buildingknowledge5.htm

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brainandspinaltumors/brainandspinaltumors.htm

http://www.neurosurgerytoday.org/what/patient_e/glioblastoma_multiforme.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniotomy

http://www.neurosurgerytoday.org/what/patient_e/head.asp

Subdural Hematoma

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000713.htm

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/247472-overview

Intracerebral Hemorrhage

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000726.htm

Conditions & Treatments by Subspecialty

http://www.neurosurgerytoday.org/what/patient_e/condition_treatments.asp

Spine Surgery Descriptions

Patient-Education

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_cervical_discectomy_and_fusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminectomy

Herniated Disc