Burr-Hole is a small opening in the skull made with a surgical drill. A hole is drilled down to the dura or protective sheath around the brain. The dura is then cut to allow accumulated fluids to drain out through a catheter.
 
Duration
The procedure requires the patient to be in ICU for two days. This is usually followed by a week in the general ward before the patient is relieved.

Compression of nerves or the spinal cord is usually caused by disc material or bony spurs. Anterior cervical decompression and fusion procedure is used for the removal of disc and/or bone mass. The resulting cavity is then filled with a bone graft from the hip. Sometimes screws and plates are used to hold the structure in place.

This is a surgical incision into the backbone to obtain access to the spinal cord. It is generally used to treat herniated intervertebral discs, or to relieve pressure on a spinal nerve, which occurs when spinal nerves are pinched by a narrowing of the spinal canal.
 
Duration
The procedure requires hospital stay of seven days.

This procedure joins one or more of the vertebrae of the spine in order to prevent any motion between them. Bone grafts are placed around the spine during the fusion procedure. After few months of healing and growth in the surgery sites, the grafts weld the vertebrae together.

Duration
The patient is required to be in ICU for one day and approximately two weeks in general ward.

Spinal tumor is a cancerous or non-cancerous growth within or near the spinal cord or in the bones of the spine. Diagnosis is conducted on the basis of medical history and physical examination followed by MRI, CT, myelogram, PET scans and nuclear medicine bone scans. A biopsy is conducted to determine if the growth is malignant. It also helps in staging the cancer if the tumor is malignant.

Duration
Patient’s recovery from the surgery depends on the nature and extent of surgery. Usually, hospital stay ranges from a week to twelve days, while recuperation takes over several weeks.