Sun
Health Neurosurgical Associates
13188 N. 103rd Drive, Suite 206
Sun City, AZ 85351
623-972-3001
Welcome to Sun Health Neurosurgical Associates
David Pootrakul, M.D., has been providing quality neurosurgical care
to adults in the northwest Valley for more than 20 years and has recently
joined Sun Health to create Sun Health Neurosurgical Services. The practice
offers several outpatient and inpatient services; all surgical procedures
are performed at Sun Health Boswell Hospital.
To make an appointment
or for more information, please call 623/972-3001. Sun Health Neurosurgical
Associates office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Services offered by Neurosurgical Associates include
- Stereotactic (frame and frameless) resection and/or biopsy of
brain lesions
- Craniotomy for ruptured intracranial aneurysms
- Craniotomy for intracranial hematoma (epidural, subdural, and
intracerebral)
- Burr holes for chronic subdural hematoma
- Ventriculostomy
- Transphenoidal microsurgical excision of pituitary tumors
- Shunting (ventriculoperitoneal, ventricuoatrial, spinal-peritoneal,
subdural-peritoneal)
- Trigeminal glycerol rhizolysis for trigeminal neuralgia
- Spinal surgeries (cervical, thoracic, lumbosacral) for congenital
defects, trauma,
degenerative spine, tumor, and/or abscess
-Anterior approach: corpectomy, diskectomy (with/without instrumentation)
-Posterior approach: laminectomy, fusion (with/without instrumentation)
- Application of halo brace for unstable cervical fractures
- Peripheral nerve procedures including biopsy, carpal tunnel decompression
and ulnar nerve anterior transposition
- Implantation of reservoir (spinal-subarachnoid, ventricular)
for chemotherapy,
infection, and/or pain control
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