Neurological Surgery
American Board of Neurological Surgery
245 Amity Road, Suite 208
Woodbridge, CT 06525
(203) 397-2267
www.abns.org
Neurological Surgery
constitutes a medical discipline and surgical specialty that provides care for adult and pediatric patients in the treatment of pain or pathological processes that may modify the function or activity of the central nervous system (e.g., brain, hypophysis, and spinal cord), the peripheral nervous system (e.g., cranial, spinal, and peripheral nerves), the autonomic nervous system, the supporting structures of these systems (e.g., meninges, skull & skull base, and vertebral column), and their vascular supply (e.g., intracranial, extracranial, and spinal vasculature).
Treatment encompasses both non-operative management (e.g., prevention, diagnosis—including image interpretation
— and treatments such as, but not limited to, neurocritical intensive care and rehabilitation) and operative management with its associated image use and interpretation (e.g., endovascular surgery, functional and restorative surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and spinal fusion—including its instrumentation).
Specialty training required prior to Board Certification: Seven years (Includes three months fundamental clinical skills, three months Neurology, and 42 months core clinical Neurosurgery, with 12 months of that at the senior most level.)