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Neurosurgery Department

Department of Neurosurgery
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Töölö Hospital
Topeliuksenkatu 5, Helsinki
P.O. Box 266
00029 HUS, Finland

Tel. +358-9-471 87409
Fax +358-9-471 87560

contact by e-mail: mailto: neurosurgery@hus.fi

The Department of Neurosurgery is internationally renowned for its top class expertise in all areas of neurosurgical care. It is part of the Helsinki University Central Hospital, HUCH. Patients that are treated at the department come mainly from the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, but an increasing number of patients are also coming from abroad. More than 3,100 annual operations make the department one of the busiest in Europe and the World.

The treatment of neurosurgery patients is challenging, but rewarding. At the moment, neurosurgery is one of the most rapidly developing medical fields. Positive developments enable us to offer improved treatment to our patients. Research indicates that our patients are well satisfied with their treatment.

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News

LINNC 2010 - June 2-4 Istanbul 27.01.2010
The third LINNC Course will be held in Istanbul with live microsurgical cases via satellite from Helsinki and endovascular cases from Ankara / Istanbul. In 2011, LINNC will be held again in Paris.

The 10th Helsinki Live Demonstration Course in Operative Microneurosurgery 21.01.2010
June 6-11, 2010. Professor and Chairman Juha Hernesniemi, MD PhD, Helsinki Neurosurgery, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Finland’s first brainstem implant operation 19.11.2003
Finland's first brainstem implant was inserted on November 18th, 2003 at the Department of Neurosurgery. Brainstem implants can be beneficial for those people who are deaf or are becoming deaf whose cochlear nerves in both ears are permanently damaged, for example, from vestibulocochlear nerve tumours of both ears. In these cases, neither hearing aids nor normal cochlear implants are of any use.

Finland’s first new type of cerebro-arterial by-pass operation 11.07.2003
The Department of Neurosurgery is starting to execute cerebro-arterial by-pass operations requiring the newest operative techniques that have not been previously performed in Finland. The new techniques make it possible to operate on gigantic aneurysms, which would have been risky with previous methods or left unoperated, or to operate on difficultly situated aneurysms, safely. At best, the method saves the patient’s life or prevents disabling of the patient.

Scientific work
Neurosurgery Research Group at Biomedicum Helsinki

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