Principles of neurological surgery /
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier, [2018] ©2018 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 886 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13419377 |
Table of Contents:
- Section 1: General overview. Landmarks in the history of neurosurgery
- Challenges in global neurosurgery
- Pearls for clinical evaluation of the nervous system
- Principles of modern neuroimaging
- Neuro anesthesia and monitoring for cranial and complex spinal surgery
- Surgical positioning, navigation, important surgical tools, craniotomy and closure of cranial and spinal wounds
- Section 2: Pediatric neurosurgery. Spinal dysraphism and tethered spinal cord
- Hydrocephalus in children
- Diagnosis and surgical options for craniosynostosis
- The Chiari malformations and syringohydromyelia
- Posterior fossa and brainstem tumors in children
- Craniopharyngiomas
- All other brain tumors in pediatrics
- Pediatric vascular disease and stroke
- Section 3: Vascular neurosurgery. Medical and surgical treatment of cerebrovascular occlusive disease
- Intracranial aneurysms, gen principles of management (ruptured and unruptured)
- Surgery for anterior circulation aneurysms
- Surgery for posterior circulation aneurysms
- Complex intracranial aneurysms and bypasses for aneurysms
- Vascular malformations (arteriovenous malformations and rural arteriovenous fistulas)
- Cavernous malformations of the brain and spinal cord
- Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
- Endovascular treatment of acute stroke and occlusive cerebrovascular disease
- Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms
- Section 4: Trauma. Surgical Management of Closed Head Injury
- Critical Care Management of Neurosurgical Patients
- Penetrating Brain Injury
- Traumatic Skull and Facial Fractures
- Section 5: The spine. Injuries to the cervical spine
- Thoracolumbar spine fractures
- Intradural extramedullary and intramedullary spinal cord tumors
- Treatment of spinal metastatic tumors
- Spinal cord injury
- Craniovertebral junction: a reappraisal
- Degenerative spine disease (cervical)
- Degenerative spine disease (thoracolumbar)
- Pediatric and adult scoliosis
- Section 6: Tumors. High-grade gliomas
- Low-grade gliomas
- Metastatic brain tumors
- Convexity, and parasagittal vs. skull base meningiomas
- Tumors of the pineal region
- Cerebellopontine angle tumors
- Pituitary tumors: diagnosis and management
- Endoscopic approaches to ventricular tumors and colloid cysts
- Microsurgical approaches to the ventricular system
- Base tumors: evaluation and microsurgery
- Endoscopic approaches to skull base lesions
- Jugular foramen tumors: paraganglioma and schwannoma
- Section 7: Radiosurgery and radiotherapy. Application of current radiation delivery systems and radiobiology
- Radiosurgery of central nervous system tumors and arteriovenous malformations
- Proton beam therapy and particle beam radiotherapy for cranial and skull base tumors
- Section 8: Functional pain. Trigeminal neuralgia
- Spasticity: classification, diagnosis and management
- Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy
- Extratemporal procedures and hemispherectomy for epilepsy
- Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders
- Stereotactic functional neurosurgery for mental health disorders, pain and epilepsy
- Section 9: Miscellaneous. Surgical management of infections of the central nervous system, cranium and of the spine
- Adult congenital CSF disorders
- Management of peripheral nerve injuries
- Entrapment neuropathies, peripheral nerve tumors
- Pre-hospital care of TBI patients.