Neurosurgeons (sometimes known as "brain surgeons"), are trained in surgery of the nervous system and specialise in surgery on patients with disorders of the nervous system: disorders of the brain, disorders of the intracranial and extracranial vasculature supplying the brain and spinal cord; disorders of the pituitary gland; disorders of the spinal cord, meninges, and vertebral column and disorders of the cranial and spinal nerves throughout their distribution.
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