Treatment & Diagnosis Services

When treating defects of the vessels of the brain, head and neck and vertebral spine with the use of a catheter inserted through the inguinal artery an occlusion of angiomas or fistulas is performed. Also aneurysms (bulging vessel wall) of brain arteries are non surgically treated by occluding with platinum coils admitted by catheter. In the same manner, narrowed arteries are expanded with the help of a balloon catheter and stabilized with the help of a metal prosthesis, a so-called stent. Such treatment averts strokes. Even cancerous tumors can be treated with the help of intra-arterial chemotherapy or vessel occluding substances applicated directly through catheters into the tumor vessels.

Another sphere of expertise of our Neuroradiology Department is the treatment of chronic pains in the vertebral spine, pelvis, and limbs. Assisted by computed tomography, medicine is inserted with the help of a narrow needle into the area of pain. Through this puncture, substitute bone substances are injected, thus stabilizing the vertebrae affected by osteoporosis. This not only reduces pain, but also prevents fractures and eliminates the need for vertebral spine surgery.

Diagnostic spectrum

  • Diagnostic radiology
  • Computer tomography
      - CT perfusion
      - CT angiography
      - CT myelography
      - 3D imaging
  • Magnetic resonance tomography
      - Functional MRI (fMRI)
      - Diffusion and perfusion imaging
      - MR angiography
      - MR spectroscopy
      - 3D imaging
  • Angiography (vascular imaging)
      - Functional angiography
      - Wada-test
      - Venous blood samples in the cavernous sinus
  • Myelography

Therapeutic spectrum

  • Endovascular interventions/minimally-invasive therapy:

     ► Vasoocclusive therapies
      - Embolization of aneurysms
      - Embolization of arteriovenous vascular deformities
      - Embolization of venous deformities
      - Embolization of vascularized tumors

     ► Vessel-widening therapies
      - Recanalization of acute vessel occulsion
      - Reopening of a constricted vessel (stent supported PTA, vasodilatation)
      - Reopening of constricted veins
     
  • CT-controlled pain treatment:
      - Blockages of the facets
      - Blockage of the root
      - Sympathetic blocks
      - Vertebroplasty/Kyphoplasty
      - CT-controlled punctures of lesions of the spinal column