Sankt Gertrauden Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
Head Neurosurgeon Prof. Siegfried Vogel M.D., Ph. D.
Attending (Senior Physician) Michail Tschigrjai M.D., Ph.D.
Phone: +49 30 82722580
Fax: +49 30 82722180
We practice neurosurgery in a modern way, which is better for our patients and allows our doctors to do what we love to do. At Berlin Brain and Spine Care you will find highly trained neurosurgeons who want to provide the best possible care for brain and spine disorders.
Our philosophy is providing the best care for our patients. For this reason, we offer a variety of minimally invasive surgical techniques that are scientifically proven and right for a particular problem. We only adopt new techniques for the benefit of our patients when their safety and quality are clearly proven and we avoid others that remain unproven or are not right for a particular problem.
Our doctor will be the best source of information about your specific condition and its prognosis. You have to be assured that our physicians will spend as much time as you need to explain your problem and the different options you may have.
Specializing in:
- Brain Tumor Microsurgery
- Skull Base Surgery
- Pituitary Tumor Surgery
- Acoustic Neurinoma Surgery
- Janetta-Decompression Surgery
- Cerebrovascular Surgery
- Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Minimal Access Surgery
- Spinal Arthroplasty
- Herniated Disc Management
- Complex Spine Reconstruction
- Surgical Pain Management
- Peripheral Nerve Surgery
If you would like more information about our specialization or the conditions we treat, please contact Berlin Brain and Spine Care. We will be pleased to answer your questions about our safe and effective surgical and non-surgical options to treating brain and spine disorders.
At Berlin Brain and Spine Care, your return to health is our primary concern. If you have any questions about your condition, your treatment, or your recovery, do not hesitate to contact us.
Berlin Brain and Spine Care - Treated Conditions
Adults
- all kind of brain tumors (low grade gliomas, anaplastic astrocytomas and glioblastomas, meningeomas, pineal gland tumors, acoustic neuromas, brain metastasis and others) - routinely used neuronavigation makes the procedures more safe
- skull base tumors (meningeomas, chordomas, sinus carcinomas) - in this field we cooperate closely with our ENT-department
- cerebrovascular diseases as AVM`s, cavernous malformations and complex aneurysms
- hydrocephalus treatment with programmable and non-programmable shunt devices
- epilepsy surgery in temporal epilepsies (amygdalhippocampectomy) and extratemporal foci
- spinal surgery
- nucleus pulposus prolaps - microdiscectomy
- lumbar stenosis - laminotomy
- instrumentation procedures - for tumors of the spinal column, trauma and degenerative disease
- cervical prolaps or stenosis - microdiscectomy and implantation of cages or artificial disc ( Bryan- Prothesis)
- spinal tumors (intramedullary tumors, meningeomas, metastasis)
- peripheral nerve surgery including plexus surgery and nerve transposition
- pain management (Janetta-decompression procedure or Sweet-coagulation in trigeminal neuralgia, implantation of pain drug pumps)
- Omentum majus transplantation for Moya-Moya-disease or Parkinson`s disease
Pediatric
- all kind of brain tumors (pilocytic astrocytomas, ependymomas, PNET, medulloblastomas, pineal gland tumors, craniopharyngeomas, plexus tumors, teratomas)
- congenital malformations ( Arnold-Chiari -malformation, myelodysplasia/spina bifida, tethered cord syndrome)
- hydrocephalus internus
- brain cysts (temporal arachnoidal cyst, Dandy-Walker- cysts)
- procedures for craniosynostosis
