The difference between neurology and neurosurgery mainly includes the types of diseases and methods of treatment.
1. Diseases diagnosed and treated: diseases mainly diagnosed and treated by neurology include primary headache, trigeminal neuralgia, cerebral infarction, encephalitis or meningitis, acute myelitis, epilepsy, myasthenia gravis, etc. Diseases mainly treated by neurosurgery include intracranial tumors, cerebral hemorrhage, cranio-cerebral trauma and so on.
2. Methods of treatment: Neurology mainly adopts conservative treatment. For example, after the onset of cerebral infarction, anti-platelet aggregation, plaque stabilization and other treatments. When primary headache develops, oral pain medication can be used for symptomatic treatment; neurosurgery is mainly based on surgical treatment, for example, intracranial tumors are given surgical resection of tumors; skull fracture is given to skull defect repair, etc. In clinic, patients are mainly treated according to their diseases.
Neurology or neurosurgery is mainly chosen according to the type of disease and the way of treatment.