Sunil Patel, M.D.
Sunil Patel, M.D., is board certified in Neurological Surgery, with additional Fellowship training in Skull base Surgery, Cerebrovascular Surgery, and Microneurosurgery. He has been in practice for over 20 years and is currently the Chair of Neurosurgery at MUSC. He has special expertise in minimally invasive neurosurgery of the brain and spine and endoscopic spine surgery.
Specialties
Neurosurgery
Cancer - Brain & Spine Tumors
Clinical Interests
Spine disorders
Spine & spinal cord tumors
Acoustic tumors and other skull base lesions
Brain tumors
Meningioma
Skull base surgery
Trigeminal neuralgia
Minimally invasive neurosurgery
Related Videos
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Treating Trigeminal Neuralgia with Microvascular Decompression
Sunil Patel, M.D., the chair of neurosurgery at MUSC, discusses trigeminal neuralgia, a rare condition that causes intense pain in the face when no painful stimuli are present, and its surgical treatment.
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Resection of Pineocytomas Offers Symptom Relief
Sunil J. Patel, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at MUSC, is one of a handful of surgeons in the world who resects symptomatic pineal cysts.
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A Rare Case of Bobble-Head Doll Syndrome
Dr. Sunil Patel, discusses a rare case of Bobble-Head Doll Syndrome. Characterized by a "yes-yes" head bob, the syndrome is often associated with cystic abnormalities in the third ventricle that produce hydrocephalus.
