About us
Neurosurgery department of Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command,founded in 1954, is one of the first neurosurgery in new China . Under the united efforts of neurosurgery experts Liu Mingduo,Wu Hongxun, Wang Weiming and other senior neurosurgeons, the neurosurgery underwent significant progress through the recent 57 years.
At present, we have 32 specialists , including 7 professors, 5 associate professors, 16 attending doctors,and 4 resident doctors. As a neurosurgery center of PLA, our center now has 101 beds, a specialist care unit and specialist surgery, neural anatomy laboratory, microsurgery laboratory, laboratory of nerve tumors, gamma knife treatment center, center of minimally invasive neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery center and the "Chinese Journal of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery " editorial department.
Our neurosurgery center provides care for patients affected by disorders of brain, spine and spinal cord, and peripheral nerves with special interest and expertise in: Chiari malformation and syringomyelia, brain and skull base tumors, aneurysms and other vascular malformations, facial pain, and vagal nerve stimulation. In particular,the gamma knife center has become an authority and top level center by developing its clinical practices. The annual count of our gamma-knife treatments amounted to 2300, and the total number of gamma-knife cases exceed 15000.
About Gamma Knife
The Gamma Knife is a remarkable tool that allows neurosurgeons to operate on abnormal areas of the brain without making an incision. Using a technique called stereotactic radiosurgery, the Gamma Knife is designed to precisely target and destroy abnormalities within the skull using highly focused gamma radiation. Patients experience minimal pain and, in most cases, can resume regular activities the day after treatment.
Gamma Knife treatment is not experimental. The Gamma Knife has been in use for over 30 years, and has been used successfully to treat more than 190,000 patients worldwide. It is one of the most advanced techniques in the treatment of disorders affecting the brain and its adjacent structures. It's not surprising that the Gamma Knife is regarded as the "gold standard" for stereotactic radiosurgery.
