Areas of Expertise

Brain Tumor, Skull Base Tumor, and Spinal Cord Tumor Surgery (Adults & Children)

Comprehensive, personalized surgical treatment plans are developed for patients with brain tumors, skull base tumors, and spinal cord tumors using advanced microsurgical techniques and multidisciplinary evaluation.

Treatment & Surgical Procedures

  • Microsurgical tumor resection
  • Stereotactic biopsy
  • Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT)
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS), GammaKnife
  • Postoperative adjuvant treatment planning through a multidisciplinary Neuro-Oncology Tumor Board
  • Lifelong follow-up

Advanced Technologies

  • Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IONM)
  • Neuronavigation
  • Intraoperative Neuro-ultrasonography (Neuro-Ultrasound)
  • Fluorescence-guided tumor surgery
  • Awake Craniotomy

Pituitary Adenoma and Anterior Skull Base Surgery (Adults & Children)

Pituitary adenomas and anterior skull base tumors are treated using a multidisciplinary approach by Prof. İlhan Elmacı together with ENT (Otolaryngology) specialists experienced in skull base surgery.

Surgical Techniques & Technologies

  • Endoscopic skull base surgery
  • Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IONM)
  • Neuronavigation
  • Intraoperative Neuro-Doppler Ultrasonography

Cerebrovascular Diseases (Adults & Children)

Conditions Treated

  • Brain hemorrhage (intracerebral hemorrhage)
  • Cerebral aneurysms
  • Brain and spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
  • Brainstem and spinal cavernous malformations (Cavernomas)
  • Moyamoya disease
  • Ischemic cerebrovascular disease

Treatment Options

  • Microsurgical and minimally invasive treatment of brain hemorrhage
  • Cerebral aneurysm surgery (Microsurgical Clipping)
  • AVM surgery
  • Cavernoma surgery
  • Direct and indirect cerebral revascularization procedures

Advanced Technologies

  • Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IONM)
  • Neuronavigation
  • Intraoperative Neurosonography
  • Intraoperative angiography

All treatment decisions are made through a multidisciplinary Cerebrovascular Board.

Spine Surgery and Spinal Disorders Treatment (Adults & Children)

Conditions Treated

  • Low back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Mid-back pain
  • Lumbar disc herniation
  • Cervical disc herniation
  • Thoracic disc herniation
  • Degenerative spine disease
  • Spinal stenosis
  • Vertebral compression fractures

Treatment Options

  • Personalized treatment planning
  • Non-surgical pain management
  • Microsurgical and endoscopic spine surgery
  • Spinal stenosis surgery
  • Vertebroplasty
  • Kyphoplasty
  • Spinal instrumentation and stabilization surgery

Advanced Technologies

  • O-Arm® CT Navigation
  • Neuronavigation
  • Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IONM)

Hydrocephalus Treatment

Treatment options for hydrocephalus in both adult and pediatric patients include:

  • Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt surgery
  • Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy (ETV)

Trigeminal Neuralgia and Hemifacial Spasm

For patients with severe facial pain or involuntary facial muscle spasms:

  • Microvascular Decompression (MVD)

Chiari Malformation Treatment

Treatment options include:

  • Microsurgical posterior fossa decompression
  • Syringomyelia treatment
  • Syringo-pleural shunt surgery

Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Management of severe traumatic brain injuries includes:

  • Microsurgical decompressive surgery
  • Reconstructive cranial surgery
  • Multidisciplinary neurocritical intensive care

Peripheral Nerve Surgery

Conditions Treated

  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Cubital Tunnel Syndrome (Ulnar Nerve Entrapment)
  • Peroneal Nerve Entrapment
  • Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Radial Nerve Entrapment
  • Neuromas
  • Traumatic peripheral nerve injuries

Treatment

  • Microsurgical peripheral nerve surgery

Spasticity Treatment

Treatment options include:

  • Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR)
  • Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Implantation

Epilepsy Surgery

For adults and children with drug-resistant epilepsy:

  • Microsurgical resection of the epileptogenic focus
  • Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT)
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)

Craniosynostosis Surgery

Treatment includes:

  • Reconstructive craniofacial surgery

Arachnoid Cyst Treatment

Treatment options include:

  • Microsurgical cyst surgery
  • Cystoperitoneal shunt placement

Congenital Spinal Disorders

Conditions Treated

  • Dermal Sinus Tract
  • Split Cord Malformation
  • Tethered Cord Syndrome
  • Diastematomyelia
  • Lipomyelomeningocele
  • Myelomeningocele (Spina Bifida)
  • Spinal Dysraphism
  • Basilar Invagination

Treatment

  • Advanced microsurgical treatment using state-of-the-art surgical techniques

Ethics

Every treatment plan is individualized according to evidence-based medicine, with the guiding principle of providing only the treatment that is truly necessary while preserving and improving the patient’s quality of life.

Ethical Principle

Can be summarized as “as much as necessary and life quality-preserving treatment.”