Miami Neuroscience Center in South Miami

Description

The Miami Neuroscience Center at Larkin is a state-of-the-art, full-service neurological surgery facility serving our community and patients from around the nation and the world since 1993. Through years of vast experience, our physicians and staff are uniquely qualified to diagnose and treat neurosurgical conditions.

We believe one size does not fit all and as such, we strive to provide the most effective and least invasive procedures individually tailored to meet our patient’s needs and goals. This means personalized care and accessibility to the medical and staff team at all times.

We have been pioneers in offering the newest procedures and technologies, such as awake craniotomies, a technique that allows the surgeon to safely resect as much of a tumor as possible, providing better outcomes. The patient is conscious during the procedure but does not feel pain because the brain does not have pain receptors and a local anesthetic is used to numb the scalp. When a tumor is near an area of the brain that controls highly essential functions — such as speech, language, or movement — an awake craniotomy is the best way to identify and safely preserve those abilities. Not all surgeons are qualified to perform this highly specialized procedure.

We have also been instrumental in the use of Gamma Knife radiosurgery to treat multiple brain metastasis, which in the early 1990s was practically a death sentence. At that time, patients with more than a few brain lesions had few options, but today, treating numerous brain lesions is a standard of care. We are proud to have been part of this revolutionary advance that changed the course of radiosurgery. There is now hope for these patients, which can take comfort in the fact that we can control brain metastasis in most cases with this exclusively dedicated neurosurgical tool. Gamma Knife remains the gold standard “because of its extensive use and enormous amount of supportive data”- Journal of Neurosurgery. The increased accu