Dr. Sunil Kumar Patra

Dr. Sunil Kumar Patra is Consultant - Neurosurgery at Manipal Hospital Bhubaneswar, with 22 years of overall medical experience and more than 10 years focused on neurosurgery. His qualifications are MBBS, MS in General Surgery and MCh in Neurosurgery, followed by fellowship training in microvascular neurosurgery.

His principal areas are minimally invasive spine surgery and microvascular neurosurgery, with particular expertise in aneurysm clipping and arteriovenous-malformation surgery. His current Manipal profile also reflects broad work in complex brain and spine disease, where operative planning depends on lesion location, neurological findings and imaging.

Dr. Patra speaks English, Hindi and Odia. Manipal lists multiple published case reports and research contributions covering neurosurgical disorders, including craniospinal arachnoid cysts, spinal tumours and unusual intracranial or extracranial haematomas. This academic work complements his clinical interest in difficult vascular and spinal cases.

For patients seeking a neurosurgical opinion, useful records include MRI or CT images, CT/MR angiography when vascular disease is suspected, previous operative notes, pathology and a current neurological assessment.

The final approach may involve observation, conventional microsurgery or a minimally invasive spinal technique depending on anatomy, symptoms and operative risk. Aneurysms and AVMs may also require multidisciplinary review with neuroradiology before treatment is selected. Patients with spine disease should provide prior physiotherapy, injection and medication history because non-operative care may remain appropriate when there is no progressive neurological deficit or instability.