Neurosurgery
Dr.N.Veera Rajkumar MS MCh(Neuro)
Consultant Neurosurgeon: Dr.N.Veera Rajkumar MS Mch(Neuro)
The consultant is a former Tutor in Neurosurgery at Madurai Medical College Madurai and has presented various scientific papers.
He has been trained in spine surgery by Prof.PS Ramani, the renowned spine surgeon at Mumbai Lilavati Hospital.
The hospital handles head injury and spine injury cases(medicolegal cases)
All routine neurosurgical procedures are done. An operating microscope (Carl Zeiss) is available.
Microlumbar discectomies are done for lumbar disc prolapse.
Pediatric Neurosurgical conditions like hydrocephalus, meningomyelocele are managed in this center.
MRI of spinal cord tumor
Spinal cord tumors arise from the meningeal covering or nerve roots commonly and cause cord compression and cause weakness of arms/legs and difficulty in bowel and bladder functions.
They can be microsurgically removed and with physiotherapy patients usually return to near function.
Lumbar disc prolapse
Patients have back pain and pain radiating to the legs associated with numbness and sometimes weakness of the toes and feet.
Surgery is indicated in some patients and this helps relieve the pain and numbness.
Extruded lumbar disc
A case of lipomeningomyelocele
Spinal cord injury
Instrumentation for spinal injury
C arm image of pedicle scrrews being applied for spine injury.
Cerebello pontine angle tumor
These tumors are in the hindbrain and cause difficulty in walking and hearing difficulty.