Neurosurgery

Department Overview: The Department of Neurosurgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University was established in 1964. It has 120 open beds and is divided into two nursing units, A and B, as well as a neurosurgical intensive care unit (NICU). There are 24 physicians, including 5 chief physicians/professors and 8 associate chief physicians/associate professors; 4 graduate-student supervisors; 4 physicians with clinical doctoral degrees; and 5 doctoral students currently enrolled. There are 63 nurses, 31 of whom hold bachelor’s degrees.

Through the efforts of several generations of neurosurgeons, the Department of Neurosurgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University has received the following honorary titles, awarded respectively by the former Ministry of Health, the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Health Department of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the Hohhot Municipal Health Bureau: “National Key Clinical Specialty”; “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team of Grassland Talents of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region”; “Advanced Collective of the Health System of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region”; and “Key Clinical Medical Discipline of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.”

The department currently sees approximately 10,000+ outpatients per year, admits 2,000+ inpatients per year, and performs more than 1,000 operations per year, with a cure-and-improvement rate of over 95%. It has 3 Leica operating microscopes, a contact laser knife, neuroendoscopes, stereotactic and ultrasound navigation systems, an ultrasonic aspirator, intraoperative evoked-potential and cortical EEG monitoring systems, and a complete range of microsurgical instruments, ensuring the smooth performance of precise, minimally invasive neurosurgical procedures.

The ward has comprehensive monitoring, treatment, and emergency-resuscitation facilities. Nurses implement responsibility-based holistic specialized nursing and provide rehabilitation treatment for patients with neurological deficits. The ward has received the honorary titles “National Demonstration Ward for High-Quality Nursing Services”; “Demonstration Ward for High-Quality Nursing Services of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region”; and “Demonstration Ward for High-Quality Nursing Services of Hohhot.”

In 1996, the department was approved by the Ministry of Education as a training base for master’s students and has now trained more than 100 graduate students. Trainees and visiting learners come from hospitals at all levels throughout the country.

The team of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University takes safety, quality, service, and continuous improvement as its guiding principles; remains development-centered, with quality and harmony as its fundamental points; and works to develop into a united, progressive, learning-oriented team.

Scope of Services (including academic and scientific research achievements):

Clinical treatment is divided into 5 subspecialties:

(1). Craniocerebral Trauma: Surgical treatment and comprehensive management of craniocerebral injuries. Its treatment techniques and cure-and-improvement rate have reached an advanced level in China.

(2). Cranial and Brain Tumors, Hydrocephalus, and Neuroendoscopy: Microsurgical and precise surgical treatment of tumors in all cranial and cerebral locations, such as gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary tumors, acoustic neuromas, and brain abscesses. Neuroendoscopic pituitary tumor resection, repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, hydrocephalus shunting, and microvascular decompression are performed. High-risk operations, including those for petroclival-region tumors, skull-base tumors, and brainstem tumors, have been carried out.

(3). Cerebrovascular Disease: Surgical and interventional treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic cerebrovascular diseases, including hemorrhagic cerebrovascular diseases such as aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous hemangiomas, hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage, arteriovenous fistulas, and intracranial and extracranial arterial stenosis.

(4). Spinal and Spinal Cord Diseases: Congenital lesions, trauma, vascular lesions, tumors, infections, and other diseases requiring surgical treatment that are located within or outside the spinal cord. Examples include microsurgical treatment of intraspinal canal tumors, basilar invagination, syringomyelia, tethered spinal cord, sacral canal cysts, and spinal canal stenosis.

(5). Functional Neurosurgery: Microvascular decompression treatment for trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, spastic disorders, and other conditions; stereotactic-navigation-guided targeted treatment of positive brain lesions, such as foreign-body removal, puncture aspiration of abscesses, and puncture aspiration of hematomas; and targeted treatment of negative lesions, such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.

Clinical treatment has two established research directions: 1. individualized, comprehensive treatment of gliomas; 2. microsurgical and interventional treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic vascular diseases. Basic research has produced relatively mature results concerning the causes, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy of gliomas; the causes and treatment strategies of cerebrovascular diseases (cerebral aneurysms, cerebral arteriovenous malformations, and carotid stenosis); and neural stem-cell treatment after brain injury.

In recent years, the department has received 5 provincial- or ministerial-level scientific research achievement awards, published more than 300 papers in core journals, served as chief editor, chief translator, or contributing editor for 11 neurosurgical monographs, and has more than 30 research projects currently in progress.

Distinctive Medical Technologies of the Department: Distinctive treatment areas include 1. microsurgical and endoscopic treatment of brain tumors such as gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary tumors, and acoustic neuromas; 2. microsurgical and interventional treatment of cerebrovascular lesions such as aneurysms, vascular malformations, and carotid stenosis; 3. microsurgical treatment of congenital brain and spinal cord diseases such as hydrocephalus, skull-base diseases, and spinal cord malformations; 4. microsurgical treatment of spinal cord tumors; 5. microsurgical procedures and Gamma Knife treatment of functional diseases such as trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, and epilepsy; and 6. microsurgical treatment of deep-brain and eloquent-area lesions using stereotactic navigation combined with intraoperative awake-surgery techniques.

Outpatient telephone: 3451208 (outpatient location) 7th floor, Outpatient Building. Ward nurses’ station telephone: 3451369 (ward location) 18th and 19th floors, Inpatient Building No. 1.