Mastering Neurosurgery Operative Skills

 The neurosurgery operative skill can be mastered by learning 2 basic steps

1. Starts with making Burr hole & craniotomy, corticectomy 

2. Suboccipital craniectomy

2. Laminectomy

4. Laminectomy, durotomy , myelotomy

For operating all supratentorial lesions, craniotomy is done. 

For operating midline posterior fossa or infra tentorial lesions, sub occipital craniotomy is performed.

For operating spinal lesions, laminectomy is very commonly performed. This is basic neurosurgical skill.