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Patient Referrals

Wisconsin locations

Minnesota locations

  • Albert Lea: 507-594-4170
  • Mankato: 507-594-4170
  • New Prague: 952-758-4431

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Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic Health System specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the brain, nervous system and spine. We provide brain, back and functional neurosurgical procedures. The Neurosurgery Department treats adolescent and older patients, and offers a number of minimally invasive procedures for faster recovery and optimum patient outcomes.

Our staff

Our fellowship-trained providers have completed advanced training in neurosurgery, including training with world-class experts at Mayo Clinic:

Tests and procedures

For the Spine:
  • Minimally-invasive spine surgery
  • Decompressions and fusions — cervical/thoracic/lumbar degenerative disease
  • Management of spinal fractures, including surgery
  • Spinal tumor surgery, both intrinsic and metastatic
  • Vertebral augmentation (vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty) including radiofrequency ablation of spinal tumors
Cranial Surgery
  • Tumor surgery, both intrinsic and metastatic, biopsy and resection, including awake craniotomies with mapping
  • Management of subdural hematomas/hygromas
  • Hydrocephalus (including normal pressure hydrocephalus, NPH) shunting and third ventriculostomy
  • Evaluation of aneurysms and arteriovenous malformation (AVMs)
  • Cavernous malformation surgery
Peripheral nerve (Services available in Neurosurgery in Mankato and other departments depending on the location.)
  • Carpal tunnel, ulnar nerve decompression/transposition and occipital neuralgia surgery

Conditions treated:

  • Astrocytoma
  • Benign peripheral nerve tumor
  • Brain lymphoma
  • Brain tumor
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Cavernous malformations
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Cervical spinal stenosis
  • Chiari malformation
  • Craniopharyngioma
  • Cushing syndrome
  • Ependymoma
  • Epilepsy
  • Esthesioneuroblastoma
  • Glioblastoma multiforme
  • Glioma
  • Head and neck cancers
  • Hemifacial spasm
  • Hemorrhage
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Intracranial hemorrhage
  • Lumbar spinal stenosis
  • Meningioma
  • Metastatic brain tumor
  • Nasal and paranasal tumors
  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Oligodendroglioma
  • Peripheral nerve injuries
  • Peripheral nerve tumors
  • Pituitary tumors
  • Seizures
  • Spinal cord lymphoma
  • Spinal cord tumor
  • Spinal stenosis
  • Subdural hemorrhage
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Vertebral tumor

Locations providing neurosurgery care: