Department
of Neurosurgery
The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College
Overviews
The Neurosurgery Department
of the Second Affiliated Hospital at Guangzhou Medical College
was founded in 1985, and also is a part of the Neuroscience
Institution of Guangzhou Medical College.
It has been one of the key departments of
the hospital with a strong commitment to patient care, education
and research. In 1998, the department was authorized for master's
degree course by National committee of degree. Today, our
department has become an important basis for medical, teaching
and researching of the college and an unit of advanced equipment,
full specialty well technique and high academic level, and
it also is the largest neurosurgical units in the Southern
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There are 100 beds in our
department, Approximately 1200 patients were treated here
every year, and 810 operations and procedures are performed
yearly. The department has been advancing in almost every
field of neurosurgery and now there are twenty-three neurosurgeons,
three professors, six associate professors and fourteen assistant
professors. Now our focus attentions about the clinical and
the research works in the field of neurosurgery has great
progressed, mainly in cerebrovascular disease, kulls base
surgery, pediatric neurosurgery, brain tumors, stereotactic
neurosurgery and head injury. |
There are four operating rooms
dedicated to neurosurgical procedures and a dedicated six
beds Neuro ICU. The department has five divisionsincluding
, Cerebrovascular Surgery, Skull Base Surgery and Brain Tumors
Surgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Head Injury and Spinal Surgery
and Stereotactic Neurosurgery. Ourdepartment have many advanced
instruments at international level, such as operation microscope(4
sets),neuro-navigation system, ,ultrason-knife. Brain-endoscopes,
laser-knife, γ-knifeTCD and intracranial pressure uncaring
instrument, and Lakesell stereotactic system. |
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We carry out operations of microsurgery
and stereotacticneurosurgery for brain tumor, cerebrovascular disease,
neurological functional disorder and spinal lesion. Some operations
has reach the national advance level and provincial leading level,
such as resection of brain tumor, clipping of cerebral aneurysm,
excision of arteriovenous malformation, children’s posterior skull
fossa tumor, remove of pituitary adenoma via sphenoid approach,
operating with endoventricle scope, treatment for Parkinson’ disease
with gamma knife and intervention of cerebral aneurysm, arteriovenous
malformation and arteriovenous fistula. In last 5 years, we have
performed more than 2500 brain tumors with microsurgery and the
surgical mortality was less than 1%. 200 intracranial aneurysms
and arteriovenous malformations were resected in our department
and successful rate reached the national advanced level. More than
200 children’s posterior skull fossa tumors were treated and the
complete excision rate was up to 85%, surgical mortality was less
than 0.5%. Our department was not only one of the first perform
upper three operations in Guangdong Province, but also has the most
number of such operations.
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