Our department is a center of neurosurgery in Yamanashi prefecture located 100km west from Tokyo. Our medical practice including affiliated hospitals situate in 5 prefectures around Tokyo. We offer most advanced therapies for cerebrovascular disorders, brain and spinal tumors, neurospinal disorders, functional neurological disorders, and pediatric(congenital) neurological disorders. Pursuing the optimal treatments, we are integrating multidisciplinary approaches including skull base surgery, inteventional surgery, sterotactic radiosurgery, and neurooncology in our clinical practice and dedicating ourselves to clinical and basic neurosurgical research. We provide our residency program with the central objective to cultivate the academic neurosurgeons who can meet the demands of social health care environment and understand the patient’s heart voice.
Patient Care
Cerebrovascular disorders
We are fighting against stroke, in the other word “Brain Attack”. The aim
of our treatment team consists of concept; “We should provide just adequate
treatment for every patient at any time”. CVDs include aneurysms, subarachnoid
hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformation, dural arteriovenous fistulas, cavernous
malformation, intracererbral hemorrhage, vascular occlusive disease, cerebral
infarction, transient ischemic attack, carotid stenosis and occlusion,
vascular compression syndrome (trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm),
spinal arteriovenous malformation etc. We have integrated microsurgery
with skull base surgery, endoscopic surgery, endovascular surgery, and
stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of CVDs.
Brain tumor
We offer the most advanced therapies to adult and child brain tumor patients.
Our practice is the center of brain tumor program in Yamanashi. Brain tumor
therapy involves interdisciplinary collaboration among microsurgery with
neuronavigation, radiochemothrapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma
knife, X knife). We can provide the most advanced brain tumor vaccine therapy.
Spinal disorders The spinal disorder program provides diagnostic and therapeutic sevices for patients with congenital, traumatic, neoplastic and degenerative disorders of spinal vertebra, spinal cord, and spnal nerves. We have focused on reduction of spinal deformities and decompression of neural structures following vertebral fusion especially anterior cervical fusion using instrumentation such as titanium cages and obtained excellent functional recovery with short time external fixation. Open-door laminoplasty with preservation of muscle attachment has recently been adopted for posterior decompression of the cervical spine. We have obtained very satisfactory results in the spine surgery. We have also specialized in the treatment of spinal tumors as well as spinal vascular disorders such as spinal arteriovenous malformation collaborating with departments of periatircs, radiology, and orthopedics.
Neurosurgical Research
Medical faculty and staff including clinical researchers, residents, postdoctoral
fellow, and postgraduate school students dedicate clinical and basic neurosurgical
science research. Our special interests include 1) mechanism of ischemic
neuronal injury, brain protection, neurogenesis, 2) brain tumor bilogy,
exploitation of advanced therapy including tumor vaccine therapy, brain
tumor stem cell bilogy, 3) pathophsiology and neuroimaging of compressed
spinal cord in the degenerative spinal disorders.
Staff
 Professor and Chairman
Hiroyuki Kinouchi, M.D., Ph.D.
Cerebrovascular surgery, Tumor surgery, Skull base surgery,Neuroendoscope, CVD research
Associate professor
Toru Horikoshi, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Spine surgery, Functional surgery
Assistant
professor
Masao Sugita, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief , Cerebrovascular disease,Endovascular surgery
Eiji Sato, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Brain tumor
Research
Associate
Mikito Uchida, M.D., Ph.D.
Spine Surgery, Electrophysiological monitoring
Takashi Sato, M.D.
Tumor Surgery, Neuroimaging
Tomoyuki Kawataki, M.D., Ph.D.
Tumor Surgery,
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