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CyberKnife radiosurgery is best known for cancer treatments, but it can also be used to treat AVMs, acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannoma) and trigeminal neuralgia (tic doloreux). The procedure is simple and painless, without any surgical incision and it is sometimes completed in a single 45-90 minute session.
Neuroscience and Neurosurgery
CyberKnife® radiosurgery centres
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.
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 centres
Treatment may involve surgery, radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy or a combination of these and other modalities.
MHL currently features the following multi-modal 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
In addition we feature the following specialist centres for neurosurgical treatments
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.
MHL has considerable experience of patient enquiries for Cyberknife radiosurgery. We work with a number of CyberKnife centres in Europe and Asia and we have our own dedicated web site and on-line enquiry form.
MHL (Medilux Healthcare Ltd.) promotes individual hospitals or hospital groups which we believe offer high standards of care. We provide you with general information and details of how to make contact with the centre, but we shall not be responsible for the quality of any diagnosis or treatment given or for the failure to diagnose or treat any condition. We cannot advise or enter into correspondence about individual cases and we do not arrange or facilitate treatments.
Important note to all patients
University Medical Centre Mainz is the teaching hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University, the fifth largest in Germany and is situated close to Frankfurt Airport. With more than 1,000 doctors it treats over 62,000 inpatients per year.
University Medical Centre Mainz, Germany
The Department of Neurosurgery is one of the largest neurosurgery centres in Germany, offering all forms of therapy, from the treatment of complex disorders in acute emergencies through to rehabilitation. Facilities include intraoperative MRI scanning and the latest robotically-assisted surgery and surgical navigation techniques.
AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation)
Because of their sensitive locations and/or complex shapes AVMs (also known as arteriovascular malformations) 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.
CyberKnife® radiosurgery is a relatively new option for AVM patients, including those with spinal AVM, as it uses a large number of high precision radiation beams which can be moulded to the shape of the AVM.
CyberKnife can be applied in even fine and inaccessible areas where a surgeon would not be able to operate safely.
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