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The Department of Neurosurgery performs surgeries for brain tumours, cerebrovascular diseases, craniocerebral injuries, spinal and spinal cord tumours, spinal injuries and degenerative changes, hydrocephalus, peripheral nerve injuries and tumours. Spine surgery and functional surgery are of particular interest. In 1999 we performed the first surgery for Parkinson’s disease. We also performed the first in Poland surgery for a mental disease – OCD. To treat spasticity in adults we perform microsurgical DREZ-otomy of cervical and thoracolumbar spine, and peripheral neurotomy. In the treatment of epilepsy we perform temporal lobectomy and implant vagus nerve stimulators. As regards spine surgery we perform surgeries for all spine sections, using modern stabilizing systems. In the case of injuries and diseases which disturb the stability of craniocervical junction we perform occipito-cervical stabilization using CCD system. In the cervical spine surgeries we perform intervertebral stabilizations using implants, and in the case of posttraumatic instability - also anterior plates. In advanced multilevel cervical spondylosis with myelopathy we perform a so-called “open door” laminoplasty. In the case of thoracic and lumbar sections we use anterior approach through chest or extraperitoneal and posterior approaches. We use anterior and posterior intervertebral cages, vertebral prosthesis, transpedicular stabilizations depending on the levels and causes of instability. As regards the treatment of nervous system tumours we cooperate with the Oncology Centre in Bydgoszcz (in brachytherapy of deeply located glial and metastatic brain tumours). We perform stereotactic brain tumour biopsies and thanks to the cooperation with Dr Tadeusz Szylberg, a neuropathologist, the biopsies are performed during surgery in an operating theatre.

The Department possess two air-conditioned operating rooms, equipped with two operating microscopes, ZEISS and MÖLLER - WEDEL with video channel, Valleylab Cusa Excel with anti-gravity head and electrocoagulation, BrainLab set for stereotactic surgeries with program for full-volume image overlapping and planning, system for neuronavigation, a set of tools for microdiscectomy, set for hypophyseal tumour surgery approached from sphenoid sinus, brain endoscope, device for intraoperative USG and X-ray.

In 2003 we purchased a BrainLab system for neuronavigation.
The Department staff prepared the first Polish monograph on functional neurosurgery entitled “Functional Neurosurgery,” edited by Prof. Marek Harat, MD, PhD.

Head

Prof. Marek HARAT, MD, PhD – neurosurgeon. Since 2000 member of the Board of the European Society for Stereotaxy and Functional Neurosurgery. Professor at Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Medical Staff:

Head of the Neurosurgery Unit - Jacek Furtak, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor - Waldemar Narolski, MD, PhD
Assistant lecturers - Bogdan Kitliński, MD, PhD, Aleksander Litwinowicz, MD, Paweł Sokal, MD, PhD,
Marcin Rudaś, MD, PhD, Marcin Birski, MD, Dariusz Paczkowski, MD, Piotr Gasiński, MD, PhD, Marcin Rusinek, MD
Clinical psychologist - Julita Gryz, MD, PhD

Unit Nurse:

Renata Gryszko, MA

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