Privatdozentin Dr. med. Daniela Pierscianek is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in neurosurgery as well as specialized neurosurgical intensive care medicine. She combines many years of clinical experience with outstanding scientific expertise and has served as Chief Physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at St. Marien Hospital Lünen since December 2025. Following her habilitation in 2021 at the University of Duisburg-Essen, she has established herself as a leading point of contact for complex neurosurgical issues.
A particular focus of her scientific career is primary brain tumors. Dr. Pierscianek conducted research for two years at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization in Lyon, where she worked intensively on the biology and treatment of primary brain tumors. This international research experience continues to shape her evidence-based, translational approach to patient care. From 2018 to 2022, she also served as Medical Coordinator of the Neuro-Oncology Center at University Medicine Essen.
PD Dr. med. Daniela Pierscianek
Specialist for Spinal surgery, Neurosurgery in
Altstadtstraße 2344534 Lünen
www.klinikum-luenen.de
Clinically, she focuses on the surgical treatment of brain tumors and on spinal surgery using robot-assisted techniques and motion-preserving procedures.
Focuses
Brain Pathologies:- Primary brain tumors, meningiomas, or brain metastases
- Awake surgery
- Neurovascular pathologies
- Skull base and ventricular processes
- Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Herniated discs
- Spinal tumors
- Spinal canal and nerve canal stenosis
- Robot-assisted surgery
- Intervertebral disc prostheticsScoliosis
- Kyphosis
- Spondylodesis
- Herniated disc
Medical spectrum
Diseases
- Acromegaly
- Astrocytoma
- Brain injury
- Brain tumor
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Cavernoma
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Cerebral metastases
- Cerebral vascular disorder
- Cervical myelopathy
- Cervical spinal disk herniation
- Flat Back Syndrome (post-op)
- Glioblastoma
- Glioma
- Hydrocephalus
- hyperprolactinemia
- hypopituitarism
- Intervertebral disc degeneration
- ISG syndrome
- Kyphosis
- Low Grade Glioma
- Lumbar spinal pain
- Meningeoma
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neurovascular disorders
- Odontoid fractures
- Oligodendroglioma
- Osteochondrosis
- Paralyses
- Pituitary adenoma
- Postnucleotomy syndrome
- Posttraumatic kyphosis
- Spinal canal disorders
- Spinal canal stenosis
- Spinal conditions
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal cord tumor
- Spinal disk herniation
- Spinal distortion
- Spinal fracture
- Spinal instability
- Spinal tumor
- Spondylitis
- Spondylodiscitis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylopathy
- Spondylosis
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Tethered cord syndrome
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Tumor of the base of the skull
- Whiplash injury
Therapies
- ALIF procedure
- Awake surgery
- Back pain treatment
- Brain surgery
- Cerebral aneurysm surgery
- Cerebral tumor surgery
- Facet infiltration
- Intervertebral disk prosthesis
- Intervertebral disk surgery
- Intervertebral disk surgery to the cervical spinal column
- Kyphoplasty
- Minimal invasive (intervertebral) disk surgery
- Neuromodulator
- Neuronavigation
- Neurosurgical pain treatment
- Percutaneous spinal surgery
- Robot-assisted spinal surgery
- Spinal correction
- Spinal stabilization
- Spine stabilization surgery using cage
- Spondylodesis
- Stereotaxis
- Surgery to the base of the skull
- TLIF (transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion)
- Vertebral body replacement
- XLIF procedure
Directions
Plus Code: 9F39JG99+MG
St. Marien Hospital Lünen
Altstadtstraße 23
44534 Lünen
Webseite: www.klinikum-luenen.de
Call now: +49 2389 9773000
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