Long Island Neurosurgical & Spinal Associates (LINSA)
Brain Surgery 

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Introduction

Surgical treatment of diseases of the brain is highly complex and addresses a wide variety of conditions. No surgical specialty has evolved through recent technological advances as much as neurosurgery. Diagnostic imaging such as CAT scanning and MRI with 3 dimensional  viewing and functional mapping, has revolutionized the approach to neurosurgical conditions. This has resulted in progressively more "minimally invasive" procedures through computerized image guided techniques. Stereotactic biopsies of brain lesions, endovascular coiling of cerebral aneurysms, endoscopic resection of pituitary tumors are only a few examples of such procedures. Advanced digital microscopes and real-time intraoperative imaging further enhance a favorable outcome of brain surgery. It is in this "state of the art" setting, that we are able to provide our neurosurgical services at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, NY.