Skull Base Surgery
- Acoustic neuroma/ vestibular schwannoma
- Meningioma
- Other skull base tumors
Neurofibromatosis and Schwannomatosis
Trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm and related disorders
Brain Stem Surgery
- Auditory brainstem implantation
- Brainstem cavernous malformation
- Brainstem tumors
Stroke, cerebral aneurysm, and arteriovenous malformation
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Carotid stenosis
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Cavernous malformation
Spinal Cord Tumors and Degenerative Spine Disease
- Spinal cord tumor (intra- and extra-dural)
- Myelopathy and radiculopathy
- Spinal stenosis/ spondylosis
Acoustic Neuroma/ Vestibular Schwannoma
Translabyrinthine approach Retrosignmoid approach Middle fossa approach
Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
Cerebral aneurysm Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) ICG showing occlusion of cerebral aneurysm Dural Arteriovenous Fistula Aneurysm clipping Cavernous malformation Carotid artery stenosis and other cerebrovascular occlusive disease Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
Tumors of the skull base and brain
CPA meningioma Jugular foramen meningioma Glomus jugulare (paraganglioma) Pituitary adenoma planum tuberculum meningioma Cholesterol granuloma Chordoma Spheno-orbital meningimoa Esthesioneuroblastoma Chondrosarcoma Glomus jugulare (paraganglioma)
Neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Auditory brainstem implantation for Neurofibromatosis Type 2
Face, ear, and throat pain and nerve syndromes
MIcrovascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia Microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm Styloid process removal for Eagle Syndrome Hemifacial weakness and facial weakness Otalgia/ ear and throat nuerualgia Trigeminal neuralgia
Tumors of Spinal Column, Spinal Cord, Craniovertebral Junction and Peripheral Nerves
Vertebral body tumor Thoracic spine tumor Thoracic spine reconstruction Occipito-cervical fusion C1-C2 fusion C1-2 chronic instability Cervical spine tumor with cord compression C2 schwannoma invading the spinal canal
LIST OF NEUROSURGICAL DIAGNOSES TREATED BY
DR. GREGORY LEKOVIC
Skull base tumors and disorders
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Auditory Brainstem Implant
- Cranial Nerve Schwannoma
- Cranial and Skull Base Meningioma
- Ependymoma
- Spinal Schwannoma
- Spinal Meningioma
- Brachial Plexus Schwannoma
- Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
- Petroclival, cerebellopontine angle, and tentorial meningioma
- Schwannoma of the facial and trigeminal nerves
- Epidermoid tumor
- Tegmen defect/ CSF otorrhea
- Skull base encephalocele
- Cholesterol granuloma
- Glomus Jugulare Tumor
- Glomus Vagale Tumor
- Pituitary adenoma
- Craniopharyngioma
- Rathke cleft cyst
- Pituicytoma
- Meningioma
- Cavernous sinus tumor
- Chordoma
- Chondrosarcoma
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
- Metastatic tumor
- Lower Cranial Nerve Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
- Arnold-Chiari Malformation
- Foramen Magnum Meningioma
- Jugular Foramen Meningioma
- Craniovertebral Junction Instability
- Metastatic and primary malignancies of the CVJ
- Superior canal dehiscence
Facial/ Cranio-facial pain syndromes
- Trigeminal neuralgia (facial pain)
- Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (throat pain)
- Geniculate neuralgia/ otalgia (ear pain)
- Occipital neuralgia (occipital headache)
- Eagle syndrome (throat/ neck pain)
- Hemifacial Spasm
- Disabling positional vertigo
- Meniere’s disease
Cerebrovascular disease
- Cerebral Aneurysm
- Arteriovenous Malformation
- Cavernous Malformation
- Brainstem cavernous malformation
- Dural Arterio-Venous Fistula
- Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency
- Moya-Moya Disease
- Carotid Artery Stenosis
- Carotid Body Tumor
- Glomus Tumor
- Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Surgery
- Vertebral artery origin stenosis
Neuro-oncology
- Metastases
- Astrocytoma
- Glioblastoma
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
- Medulloblastoma/ PNET
- Pineal Region Tumors (e.g. germ cell tumors, and pineal parenchymal tumors)
- Hemangioblastoma
- Paraganglioma
- Oligodendroglioma
- Ganglioglioma
- Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET)
- Intraventricular tumors
- Primary CNS lymphoma
- Pleiomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma (PXA)
Spine
- Schwannoma
- Neurofibroma
- Metastatic spine tumors
- Ependymoma
- Myxopapillary ependymoma
- C1-2 instability
- Odontoid fracture
- Os odontoideum
- Congenital or acquired instability
- Spinal cord tumor
- Spinal AVM or aneurysm
- Giant cell tumor and other spine bone tumors
- Cervical/ thoracic/ lumbar herniated disk
- Cervical stenosis
- Lumbar stenosis
- Cervical/ thoracic/ lumbar radiculopathy
- Spondylolisthesis
- Cervical/ thoracic/ lumbar spondylosis
- Central cord syndrome
- Fracture of the spinal column
- Syrinx/ syringomyelia
- Tethered cord