Neuro-Oncology Department II

The 2nd Department of Neurosurgery is an authorized site for doctoral and master's graduate programs and currently has 8 physicians, including 4 professors and 1 associate professor; 5 hold doctoral degrees, and it has 1 doctoral supervisor and 3 master's supervisors. It currently has more than 40 beds and performs an average of more than 400 operations per year. Under the leadership of Professor Lian Zhigang, research, teaching, and clinical work are developing simultaneously. It currently undertakes 4 ongoing projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, has published more than 20 SCI papers, and has received 2 awards at the 2nd-prize level for scientific and technological progress from Liaoning Province; it has now formed subspecialty groups in brain tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, spinal and spinal cord diseases, functional neurosurgery, and other subspecialties. It specializes in microsurgical treatment of various conditions, including all types of gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary tumors, skull base tumors, acoustic neuromas, intramedullary spinal cord tumors, intracranial aneurysms, and cerebrovascular malformations. For the diagnosis and treatment of glioma, the most common malignant tumor of the brain, the 2nd Department of Neurosurgery is committed to establishing a standardized treatment protocol for a multidisciplinary collaborative treatment team for brain gliomas, led by neurosurgery and involving the departments of radiation oncology, pathology, neuroradiology, and others.