Dr. Anurag Saxena is a well-known name in the Neurosurgery Department. He is director of Neurosurgery at Manipal Hospitals in New Delhi.
He was honored as a Gold medalist during his MBBS studies. He has fellowships in spine surgery and pediatric neurosurgery from United Kingdom. He has been appraised with “Excellence in Health Care award” in Neurosurgery. His area of interest lies in Cerebrovascular Surgeries, Endoscopic brain surgeries, Endoscopic spine surgeries, Skull base neurosurgery.
He is specially known for his expertise in treating trigeminal neuralgia and hemi facial spasms. He regularly does temporal lobe resection for trigeminal neuralgia and micro vascular decompression for hemi facial spasm. Trigeminal Neuralgia is often recognized by sudden and sever pain on the face. Trigeminal Neuralgia is caused by Trigeminal nerve and 5th cranial nerves which are responsible for sensation on face and some parts of brain. The surgical treatment needs a microvascular decompression which is a regular surgery for Dr. Anurag Saxena.
Apart from surgery of Trigeminal Neuralgia, Dr. Anurag is regularly doing pediatric Neurosurgeries, one of his fellowship being in brain surgery for children. To find a Neurosurgeon specializing in Pediatric Neurosurgeries in not so common and thus, Dr. Anurag has been doing brain surgeries for children on regular basis.
