Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) and Neurosurgery
AVM
Neurosurgery
Because of their sensitive locations and/or complex shapes AVMs can be too difficult and dangerous to operate upon, leaving some patients with little more than palliative care, partial paralysis and the danger of bleeds and complications at any time.
One relatively new option for some such patients, including those with spinal AVM is CyberKnife® radiosurgery. This uses a large number of high precision radiation beams which can be moulded to the shape of the AVM and can be applied in even fine and inaccessible areas where a surgeon would not be able to operate safely.
One relatively new option for some such patients, including those with spinal AVM is CyberKnife® radiosurgery. This uses a large number of high precision radiation beams which can be moulded to the shape of the AVM and can be applied in even fine and inaccessible areas where a surgeon would not be able to operate safely.
Apart from cancers of the brain and spine, the high precision of CyberKnife radiosurgery offers pain-free and non-invasive treatment for conditions such as acoustic neuroma and trigeminal neuralgia.
For details on treatments available at the CyberKnife Centres in Munich, Zurich, Lyon, Athens and Bangalore please visit the CyberKnife page. Although the CyberKnife pages refer mainly to cancer treatments, many of the same principles of treatment apply to AVMs and neurosurgical treatments, except that head and spine treatments do not require the placement of metal fiducials to giuide the treatment beams.
CyberKnife® for AVMs and non-invasive neurosurgery
Patients or doctors who wish to make an enquiry about CyberKnife treatment at any of the centres listed on this web site should visit the CyberKnife Patients page.
Diseases included under this heading include those of the brain, spine and central nervous system, including peripheral nerves. They include such wide ranging conditions as arteriovenous malformations, epilepsy, brain tumours, spinal cord disorders, aneurysms, cavernomas and many more.
Treatment may involve surgery, radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy or a combination of these and other modalities.
A1Med currently features the following specialist centres for neuroscience and neurosurgery
International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover, Germany
The multidisciplinary International Neuroscience Centre in Hannover, Germany provides compassionate health care of the highest quality for diseases of the nervous system.
Physicians in neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, ENT and orthopaedics combine to treat patients with neurological disorders. INI offers a disease-specific, patient-focused approach to care
Proton therapy centres
Proton therapy can be applied wherever conventional radiotherapy can be used, but because the radiation is more closely focussed on the tumour(s) it greatly reduces the impact of radiation on sound tissue and it can sometimes be applied even after the patient has received the maximum conventional radiotherapy.
Proton therapy can treat a range tumours of the central nervous system including astrocytoma, oligodendrioglioma, epyndymoma, ganglioglioma, embryonal carinoma, cranial nerve tumours, meningioma, pituitary tumours, craniopharyngioma, skull base tumours, metastases and haemangio/pericytoma.
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