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    Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention.


        Neurosurgery
            Definition and scope
            Conditions
            Reference
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    Definition and scope
    According to the U.S. Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME),



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    Conditions
    Neurosurgical conditions include primarily brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve disorders.

    Conditions treated by neurosurgeons include:

      Some forms of pharmacologically resistant epilepsy
      Intractable pain of cancer or trauma patients and cranial/peripheral nerve pain
      Carotid artery stenosis
      Arteriovenous malformations of the brain and spinal cord
      Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
     
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