Available for surgery in any of the private hospitals in San Jose.

**Have worked and will work with the VA's Foreign Medical Program.

THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL FIELD OF NEUROSURGERY
This complex and prestigious surgical specialty involves treating diseases of the Nervous System that can be healed, cured, or controlled through surgical procedures, or a combination of surgical and medical interventions. Conditions commonly treated relating to vascular, traumatic, tumoral, degenerative, congenital or combinations of any or all of them, including but not limited to: traumatic brain injury and its acute and chronic complications, primary and metastatic brain tumors, stroke, ruptured and unruptured brain aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations, congenital and aquired hydrocephalus, traumatic and degenerative disease of the spine, spinal cord and peripheral nerves, including the cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral spine.

Commonly Performed Procedures:

* Removal of primary and metastasic brain tumors, which can be benign, malignant, infiltrating, pituitary, etc.

* Craniotomy for the removal of intracranial clot

* Scalp and skull repair

* Craniotomy for the removal of a cerebral aneurysm or a vascular malformation

* Craniotomy for the treatment of Hydrocephalus

* Surgery of the spine and its contents: anterior and posterior approaches

* Decompression and stabilization of spinal segments

* Fusion and instrumentation of the spinal cord