Challenging Concepts in Neurosurgery. Cases with Expert Commentary

Description

• A useful and engaging resource for consultants and trainees in neurosurgery
• Includes summaries of evidence from neurosurgical literature, highlighting areas of interest and controversy

Part of the Challenging Concepts in series, this book is a case-based guide to challenging clinical scenarios in neurosurgery covering the major sub-speciality areas of oncology, vascular neurosurgery, brain and spine trauma, paediatrics, spinal degenerative disease, peripheral and cranial nerves, functional neurosurgery and infection. Specific cases are examined with consideration of clinical presentation, diagnostics, and surgical principles, with a summary of evidence from the neurosurgical literature highlighting areas of interest and controversy.

This book serves as a useful and engaging resource for consultants and trainees in neurosurgery as well as in the disciplines of neurology, maxillofacial surgery, spinal surgery and neuro-oncology.

Readership: Consultants and trainees in neurosurgery, neurology, maxillofacial surgery, spinal surgery, and neuro-oncology.

Contents

1: Nick Borg, Angelos G. Kolias, Thomas Santarius and Peter J. Hutchinson: The management of chronic subdural haematoma
2: Mohammed Awad and Kevin O'Neill: Glioblastoma Multiforme
3: Eoin Fenton and Ciaran Bolger: Spondylolisthesis
4: Ruth-Mary deSouza and David Choi: Intramedullary spinal cord tumour
5: Victoria Wykes, Anna Miserocchi and Andrew McEvoy: Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
6: Martin M. Tisdall, Greg James and Dominic N. P. Thompson: Management of Lumbosacral Lipoma in Childhood
7: David Sayer and Raghu Vindindlacheruvu: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
8: Robin Bhatia and Ian Sabin: Colloid cyst of the third ventricle
9: Patrick Grover and Robert Bradford: Bilateral Vestibular Schwannomas: the challenge of Neurofibromatosis Type II
10: Adel Helmy and Peter J. Hutchinson: Multimodality Monitoring In Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
11: Ciaran Scott Hill and George Samandouras: Intracranial Abscess
12: Jonathan A. Hyam, Alexander L. Green and Tipu Z. Aziz: Deep Brain Stimulation for Debilitating Parkinson's Disease
13: Alessandro Paluzzi and Paul Gardner: Endoscopic resection of a growth hormone-secreting pituitary macroadenoma
14: Isaac Phang and Nigel Suttner: Trigeminal neuralgia
15: Melissa C. Werndle and Henry Marsh: Cerebral metastasis
16: Robin Bhatia and Adrian Casey: The surgical management of the rheumatoid spine
17: Ellie Broughton and Nick Haden: Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
18: Harith Akram and Mary Murphy: Brainstem cavernous malformation
19: Sophie J. Camp and Rolfe Birch: Peripheral Nerve Injury
20: Peter Bodkin and Patrick Statham: Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage
21: Deepti Bhargava and Michael D. Jenkinson: Low Grade Glioma
22: Jinendra Ekanayake and Neil Kitchen: Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation