UCSF's Neurosurgery service ranked in the top five of U.S. News and World Report's 2007 roster of the best neurosurgery services in the United States, and the UCSF Medical Center was ranked among the top ten hospitals. Our integrated array of clinical programs provides the full range of adult and pediatric neurological surgery specialty services, including treatment planning, surgery, auxiliary therapies, and rehabilitation. Clinical specialties for each clinical program are as follows:
 

Brain Tumor Center at UCSF

Offering the most advanced therapies available for adults and children who have a tumor of the brain or spinal cord, UCSF's Brain Tumor Center is the most comprehensive treatment program for these tumors in the nation and is the only such pediatric treatment program in California funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Brain Tumor Surgery Program for Adults

Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma); Adult Brain and Spinal-Cord Tumors; Functional Brain Mapping for Brain Tumors and Related Epilepsy; Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery; Meningiomas; Metastatic Tumors; Pituitary Tumors; Skull-Base Tumors

Central Nervous System Injury

Treating mainly traumatic injuries, this program is based at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), the major trauma hospital for the San Francisco Bay Area, a designated Trauma Center, and a designated Regional Center for Injury Prevention and Control by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Cerebrovascular Disorders

Aneurysms; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; Arteriovenous Malformations; Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas; Cavernous Malformations/Angiomas; Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Procedures; Carotid Artery and Extracranial Vascular Occlusive Disease; Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attacks (Stroke Center, with UCSF's Neurology Department); Intracerebral Hemorrhage; Vascular Compression Syndromes (Trigeminal Neuralgia, Hemifacial Spasm); Spinal Cord Vascular Malformations; Skull Base Surgery

Clinical Neuro-Oncology

Adult and Pediatric Neuro-Oncologic Therapy; Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery

Epilepsy Surgery Program

Epilepsy; Functional Brain Mapping for Epilepsy Associated with Brain Tumors

Radiosurgery Program

Arteriovenous Malformations; Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas; Brain Tumors; Epilepsy; Trigeminal Neuralgia

Movement Disorders and Parkinson's

Movement Disorders; Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's and Dystonia

Nerve Injury Program

Peripheral Nerve Injury and Entrapment Syndromes; Peripheral Nerve Tumors

Neurospinal Disorders

Adult Disc Disease, Spondylosis, and Spinal Stenosis; Adult Spinal Deformities and Spondylolisthesis ; Complex Spinal Instrumentation, Endoscopic and Image-Guided Spinal Surgery; Spinal Trauma or Instability; Spinal Cord and Vertebral Tumors; Spinal Cord Vascular Malformations

Pain Management

Surgical Management of Pain; Chronic Benign Pain; Pain Related to Malignancy (Cancer Pain); Trigeminal Neuralgia

Pediatric Neurological Surgery Program

Brain Tumors; Epilepsy Associated with Brain Tumors; Spinal Cord Tumors; Epilepsy; Spasticity and Cerebral Palsy ; Pediatric Cerebrovascular Disorders; Congenital and Traumatic Spinal Disorders; Chiari Malformation; Hydrocephalus; Spina Bifida

California Center for Pituitary Disorders at UCSF

Pituitary Adenoma Surgery; Stereotactic Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery

Subservices

Central Nervous System Infections and AIDS Program; Hydrocephalus and Shunt Program for Adults; Surgical Neurophysiology (Monitoring)