Neurosurgery is the medical speciality responsible for the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases and injuries of the central and peripheral nervous system (brain, spine, spinal cord and nerves).
What does Neurosurgery involve?
• Congenital skull deformities; depressions and bone defects
• Chronic pain with surgical procedures
• Disc herniations, stenosis, symptomatic disc degeneration, vertebral listhesis, facet syndrome
• Hydrocephalus, cerebral oedema, abscesses, cerebral parasitosis, cysts
• Insertion and removal of various prostheses from the skull and spine
• Intracranial vascular lesions: aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations
• Parkinson's disease and other conditions requiring electrode insertion in the nervous system
• Cranial, encephalic, spinal and peripheral nerve trauma
• Tumours of the brain and skull, as well as spinal tumours
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Parque do Estoril Clinic – Tel.: 219 236 381*
- Dr Margarida Conceição – Licence: 63223, issued by: Portuguese Medical Association
Baía de Cascais Clinic – Tel.: 219 236 382*
- Dr Margarida Conceição – Licence: 63223, issued by: Portuguese Medical Association
*(Standard rate call for the national landline network)