Criteria of International Reference Center (INI) Hannover

Name of the WFNS Training Centre:

About the Training Center:

The INI provides compassionate health care of the highest quality for diseases of the nervous system: Internationally renowned physicians, outstanding medical technology and excellence in service. The multidisciplinary International Neuroscience Institute (INI) combines all physicians in neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, ENT, orthopedics who treat patients with neurological disorders. INI offers a disease-specific, patient-focused approach to care.

What INI treats:

• Diseases of the brain (brain and skull base tumors, arteriovenous malformations, aneurysms, cavernomas)
• Spinal cord diseases (tumors, syringomyelia,arterivenous malformations). Diseases of the spine and limbs (vertebral disk disease, vertebral fracture, arthropathies)
• Diseases of peripheral nerves (tumors, plexus paresis, nerve trauma)
• A special emphasis of the INI is the interdisciplinary, surgical and interventional radiological treatment of vascular malformations and tumors of the nervous system. Depending on their individual needs patients can receive radiotherapy (e.g. gamma-knife) as their sole treatment or as a part of their overall treatment plan.

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