Best neurosurgeons in Milan: TOP 4 doctors

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Pietro Mortini
  • 4.5 Good 61 reviews
  • Italy, Milan, San Raffaele
  • Professor Pietro Mortini MD is a highly experienced Italian neurosurgeon who specializes in neuro- and radiosurgeries with a focus on minimally invasive spine and brain operations. He is a Visiting Professor at the George Washington University, has a degree in Otorhinolaryngology and Neurosurgery from the University of Milan and University of Verona, and has patented a method of manufacturing a device for regenerating biological tissues. He also provides research in microsurgical therapy of pituitary adenomas and radiosurgery for uveal melanoma and is a member of the Italian Society of the Cranial Base.

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Claudio Lamartina
  • 5 Excellent 14 reviews
  • Italy, Milan, IRCCS OSPEDALE GALEAZZI - SANT'AMBROGIO
  • Spine Neurosurgeon

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Laminectomy
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Discectomy
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Removal of herniated disc with preoperative diagnostic
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Federico Pessina
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  • 18 years of experience
  • Italy, Milan, HUMANITAS RESEARCH HOSPITAL
  • Dr. Federico Pessina is the Cranial Neurosurgey Unit Director.

    Medical areas of interest: Brain tumors, glioblastomas, low grade gliomas, brain metastases, meningiomas, neuromas, cavernous angiomas, brain aneurysms

    Surgical treatment with brain mapping techniques, awake and minimally invasive surgery of all central nervous system tumors.

    Surgical treatment of highly complex tumors of the skull base and cranio-cervical hinge: meningiomas, neuromas, craniopharyngiomas, brain stem tumors.

    All the tumor pathologies described above are addressed after multidisciplinary multi-specialist evaluation.

    The surgical approach is customized to the patient and to the type of lesion, making use of the most advanced intraoperative techniques for malignant brain tumors (neuronavigation, intraoperative neurophysiology, intraoperative CT) and more complex approaches (anterior, posterior and combined petroosectomies, minimally invasive accesses) for benign diseases of the skull base such as meningiomas and neuromas.

    Research areas of interest: Experimental protocols in the treatment of glioblastomas

    - Prospective protocols in the treatment of brain metastases

    - Role of surgical removal and integrated treatments in glioblastomas and malignant brain tumors

    - Intracranial meningiomas

    - Cadaver lab dissection

    Author of more than 60 scientific publications and 5 book chapters, he is member of Italian Society of Neurosurgery (SINCH).

    In 2018 he joined the Scientific Committee of European Society of Neuroncology (EANO) and the Skull Base Surgery Committee of World Federation of Neurosurgical Society (WFNS).

    Specialized training: 

    Prof. Pessina obtained his Degree in Medicine and Surgery in University of  Insubria,  Varese, where he also completed his Residency Program.

    From 2007 to 2008 he covered the role of Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery in Lausanne University Hospital, focusing on image-guided intrinsic brain tumors resection and vascular neurosurgery

    In 2018 he covered the Skull Base fellow position in Lariboisiere Hospital, Paris, fully dedicating to skull base surgery and hands-on dissection practice and teaching.

    Since 2022, he is Full Professor in Neurosurgery (MED/27) in Humanitas University

    Additional information of interest:

    Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Association of Neuroncology (EANO)

    Publications:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Pessina+Federico

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Maurizio Fornari
  • New
  • 48 years of experience
  • Italy, Milan, HUMANITAS RESEARCH HOSPITAL
  • Dr. Maurizio Fornari is the Head of the Neurosurgery Unit in Humanitas Research Hospital.

    After his specialization in neurosurgery in 1979 at the University of Milan, Dr. Fornari has followed courses in neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York (USA) and advanced courses in Spinal Surgery and skull base at the Center St. Louis (USA) and the Center of Albuquerque (USA).

    Dr. Fornari specializes in the treatment of all major diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, from the compression of the spinal nerves (lumbar and cervical disc hernias, stenosis of the cervical canal, instability of the spine, spinal cord tumors), primary and secondary brain tumors, to congenital malformations of the central nervous system. Dr. Fornari is a recognized leader in the development of computer assisted spine surgery.

    Dr. Fornari is a recognized leader in the development of minimally invasive surgery, who among the first has adopted bloodless methods such as micro decompression with unilateral approach for the treatment of lumbar stenosis instead of the much more invasive laminectomy.

    Another dreaded disease, sometimes associated with stenosis or lumbar spondylolisthesis, which Dr. Fornari is approaching for quite a long time with the help of spinal navigation systems and intraoperative CT scan, which helps the work of the surgeon during the intervention, reducing invasiveness and risks for the patient, represent lumbar instability.

    He and his team perform more than 1.300 surgeries a year, and he has one of the most important case studies in the world (data from a few years ago published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: 
    http://thejns.org/action/doSearch?displaySummary=false&AllField=maurizio+fornari.) 

    Since 2012, he teaches at the University of Milan. He is also Assistant Editor of "Advanced Technology in Neurosurgery" published by Sprinter Verlag Berlin Heldelberg (1988).

    Publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=fornari%m

     

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