Department of Neurosurgery

Department of Neurosurgery Medical Faculty of P. J. Šafarik University and UN LP, Tr. SNP 1 is

clinical educational base of Medical faculty. It provides prergradual education in Slovak and English language (lectures for the 2nd. year –

Nursing care, lectures and practicals  for the 5th, 6th year – Neurosurgery) and postgraduate teaching in the field of neurosurgery.

Department of Neurosurgery provides medical and preventive care in neurosurgery for patients

from Košice and Prešov regions. New operating procedures have been introduced: transpedicular fixation + PLIF, TLIF, total arthroplasty C and L

spine,  corpectomy and replacement of the vertebral body C, T, L spine, epileptosurgery, surgical treatment of chronic pain,

ventriculoscopy, endovascular treatment ICA stenosis, endovascular treatment of  brain aneurysms.

Department solves the intervertebral disc diseases and their complications in clinic and

experiment, questions of ischemic damage to the nervous system and its influence.