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Dr Horia Salca Calín, an efficient and resolute neurosurgeon

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Since June 2015, the Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona counts on the experience of Dr Horia Salca Calín. He is the new member of the medical-surgical team of ICSEB, a neurosurgeon trained in all conventional techniques of neurosurgery and is accredited for the implementation of the Filum System ® Surgery method . Also, he is the part of the Department of Research and Development of the Institut.   He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1990 from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMF) of Târgu Mureș and specialized in neurosurgery in 1996 from UMF, Bucharest in Romania.            Dr Salca worked in university hospitals with high intensity care activity in Bucharest and Constanza. He did his Specialty Fellowship in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and London (UK) in 1995 and 1996 respectively and achieved the Advanced Specialty Research Diploma (Diplôme d’études avancées de specializati...
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The Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona (ICSEB) is a highly specialised private centre that is concerned with offering advanced solutions on medical and neurosurgical level for brain and spine diseases. The Institut first comes into existence in Barcelona, Spain, in 2007, and is born out of the need of Miguel B. Royo Salvador, MD PhD, director and founder of the “Institut Neurologic de Barcelona”, for a space where he could dedicate himself to the three pathologies from that the centre takes its name: Arnold Chiari Syndrome I, Idiopathic Syringomyelia and Idiopathic Scoliosis.
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