Neurosurgical Operations

The Southern Philippines Medical Center Division of Neurosurgery is designated as an Advanced Comprehensive Brain and Spine Care Center by the Department of Health. With its own neurosurgery-designated operating theater and minimally invasive surgery theater, the center is capable of the following:

• Craniotomies for neurosurgical trauma, brain tumors (meningiomas, gliomas, medulloblastomas, schwannomas, etc.), stroke (including aneurysms and vascular malformations), infections (brain abscesses and empyema), 

• Awake craniotomies with neurostimulation and brain mapping

• Complex skull base surgeries including transphenoidal approaches for pituitary/sellar tumors and transbasal approaches for low anterior skull base pathologies

• Treatment of hydrocephalus including advanced endoscopic approaches such as endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus coagulation

• Congenital diseases such as encephaloceles and spina bifida

• Non-instrumented spine surgeries for spinal cord tumors, degenerative diseases (including slipped disc)

• Functional open neurosurgical techniques such as microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasms

• Peripheral nerve surgeries like nerve and muscle biopsy, among others.