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Neurosurgery
Overview
The neurosurgery program at Children’s Minnesota has the largest team of pediatric neurosurgeons in the region and the most sophisticated technology, performing more than 500 neurosurgeries each year.
Advanced technology such as a double-powered 3 Tesla MRI system, an MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) ablation system and an intraoperative MRI, to diagnose and treat some of the most complex neurosurgery cases.
Children’s Minnesota is also the first health system in North America to open a pediatric hybrid intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI) suite equipped with both moving-scanner and moving-patient MRI technology in the same surgical space. Located inside the Minneapolis hospital, The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation iMRI Surgical Suite is a 2,970 square-foot facility used by Children’s Minnesota’s neurosciences program and radiology department. This state-of-the art technology allows our care team to perform both brain and total spine scans mid-procedure for surgeries to treat brain tumors, epilepsy, traumatic injuries and directly at the point of care.
Conditions treated
- Acoustic neuroma
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Astrocytoma
- Brachial plexus injury
- Brain and spinal cord tumors
- Cavernous malformation
- Chiari malformation
- Craniofacial disorders
- Craniopharyngiomas
- Craniosynostosis
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy
- Ependymomas
- Encephalocele
- Glioma
- Head trauma
- Hydrocephalus
- Hyperhidrosis
- Intracranial hypotension
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningiomas
- Moyamoya
- Nerve transfer
- Peripheral nerve tumors
- Pituitary and neuroendocrine tumors
- Spasticity
- Spina bifida
- Spine and spinal cord trauma
- Syringomyelia
- Tethered spinal cord syndrome
- Vertebral osteomyelitis
We support the following multi-specialty clinics
- Craniofacial clinic
- Midwest Fetal Care Center
- Neuro Spine Program
- Spina Bifida Clinic
Services offered
- 3 Tesla MRI system
- Advanced imaging using Alpha CT technology
- Intra-operative MRI
- Interventional neuroradiology
- sEEG (Stereoelectroencephalography)
- Airo – a mobile scanner that can be used during surgeryto obtain high-resolution CT images
- Advanced brain mapping for patients with epilepsy and brain tumors
- Minimally invasive neurosurgery techniques including LITT and laser interstitial thermal therapy
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Scheduling for Children’s Minnesota locations
Minneapolis, Minnetonka and St. Paul:
651-220-5230