Neurosurgery

An international leader in neurosurgery

Each year, thousands of patients from more than 120 countries travel to Mass General Brigham for our internationally recognized expertise in neurosurgery, cancer, heart, orthopedic care, and more.  

Our neurosurgery teams provide diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation for a complete range of neurological disorders. Our multidisciplinary team of specialists is experienced in performing complex or advanced neurosurgeries for both common and rare neurological conditions.

Ours is the only U.S. healthcare system with five nationally ranked hospitals, including two world-renowned academic medical centers: Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Specialized neurosurgical expertise

Our team cares for international patients seeking diagnosis and treatment for complex and rare conditions of the brain, spine, nerves, and muscle. Additionally, our cutting-edge clinical trials provide access to emerging therapies often unavailable elsewhere in the world.

International patients often choose Mass General Brigham neurosurgery for the treatment of conditions including:

• Brain tumors: Expertise in common and complex neurosurgical procedures to treat glioblastomas, gliomas, brain metastases, meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, and other neurological conditions and international leaders in medical therapies for all types of brain tumors.
• Complex brain vascular disorders: World experts in the treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), moyamoya and vascular occlusive pathologies, and brain aneurysms.
• Complex skull base pathologies: Globally recognized surgical treatment of complex tumors of the base of the skull, including meningiomas, schwannomas, paragangliomas, and chordomas.
• Epilepsy: Treatment for epilepsy and seizure disorders, including surgical care to remove the area of the brain from which seizures originate without causing any significant functional impairment and specialized care for first-time seizure events.
• Nerve and muscle diseases: Treatment for patients with myasthenia gravis, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, and peripheral neuropathies.
• Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders: Treatment for Parkinson’s disease and related movement disorders, including treating essential tremors with innovative procedures such as minimally invasive focused ultrasound and deep brain stimulation.
• Pediatric neurological conditions: Diagnosis and treatment of brain and spinal cord tumors along with all other neurological conditions in infants, children, and adolescents.
• Peripheral nerve surgeries: One of the only U.S. centers specializing in the surgical treatment of peripheral nervous system disorders to restore sensation, movement and motor skills.
• Spinal injuries and disorders: Expert neurosurgical care for a range of spinal conditions, including herniations, complex deformities, spinal injuries, tumors, and more, offering minimally invasive, endoscopic, and robotic technologies, brace or vertebroplasty, endovascular or open surgical procedures, with rehabilitation.