Practical Handbook of Neurosurgery (eBook)

PREFACE 9
CONTENTS 11
VOLUME 1 17
CRANIAL APPROACHES 17
MICRONEUROSURGERY: PRINCIPLES, APPLICATIONS, AND TRAINING 18
ENDOSCOPY: PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES 46
IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOSURGERY USING THE GAMMA KNIFE 64
HOW TO PERFORM SURGERY FOR INTRACRANIAL ( CONVEXITY) MENINGIOMAS 77
THE “DANGEROUS” INTRACRANIAL VEINS 85
HOW TO PERFORM SUBFRONTO-ORBITO-NASAL APPROACH FOR ANTERIOR CRANIAL BASE SURGERY 98
HOW TO PERFORM CRANIO-ORBITAL ZYGOMATIC APPROACHES 112
HOW TO PERFORM MIDDLE FOSSA/ SPHENOID WING APPROACHES 127
HOW TO PERFORM CENTRAL SKULL BASE APPROACHES 147
HOW TO PERFORM SELECTIVE EXTRADURAL ANTERIOR CLINOIDECTOMY 166
HOW TO PERFORM APPROACHES OF THE ORBIT 178
HOW TO PERFORM TRANSSPHENOIDAL APPROACHES 193
HOW TO PERFORM TRANSORAL APPROACHES 213
HOW TO PERFORM POSTERIOR FOSSA APPROACHES 223
HOW TO PERFORM TRANSPETROSAL APPROACHES 242
VASCULAR LESIONS 251
PRINCIPLES OF MICRONEUROSURGERY FOR SAFE AND FAST SURGERY 252
SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS OF THE ANTERIOR CIRCULATION 264
INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS IN THE POSTERIOR CIRCULATION 277
GIANT ANEURYSMS 292
ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS OF THE BRAIN 307
INTRACRANIAL CAVERNOMAS 329
CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY 341
BRAIN REVASCULARIZATION BY EXTRACRANIAL– INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL BYPASSES 359
MANAGEMENT OF INTRACRANIAL VENOUS PATHOLOGIES – POTENTIAL ROLE OF VENOUS STENTING 386
TRAUMAS, CEREBROSPINAL FLUID, INFECTIONS 396
THE GLASGOW COMA AND OUTCOME SCALES: PRACTICAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 397
CRANIAL TRAUMA IN ADULTS 412
HYDROCEPHALUS IN ADULTS (INCLUDING NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS SYNDROME) 429
ARACHNOID CYSTS 441
BRAIN INFECTIONS 454
PARASITOSES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: HYDATIDOSIS 467
PARASITOSES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: CYSTICERCOSIS 483
VOLUME 2 498
INTRACRANIAL TUMORS 498
CLASSIFICATION OF BRAIN TUMORS AND CORRESPONDING TREATMENTS 499
STEREOTACTIC BIOPSIES FOR TUMORS: INDICATIONS, LIMITS, DIAGNOSIS WITH HISTOPATHOLOGY AND OTHER LABORATORY TECHNIQUES 525
MANAGEMENT OF (MALIGNANT) INTRACRANIAL GLIOMAS 544
MANAGEMENT OF LYMPHOMAS 554
MANAGEMENT OF ANTERIOR FOSSA LESIONS 573
MANAGEMENT OF TUMORS OF MIDDLE FOSSA 592
MANAGEMENT OF CENTRAL SKULL BASE TUMORS 607
MANAGEMENT OF CAVERNOUS SINUS LESIONS 621
MANAGEMENT OF CONVEXITY MENINGIOMAS 647
MENINGIOMAS INVOLVING THE MAJOR DURAL SINUSES: MANAGEMENT OF THE SINUS INVASION 661
POSTERIOR FOSSA MENINGIOMAS 673
ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY FOR SKULL BASE MENINGIOMAS 692
MANAGEMENT OF PITUITARY ADENOMAS 707
CRANIOPHARYNGIOMAS 725
MANAGEMENT OF TUMORS OF THE ANTERIOR THIRD AND LATERAL VENTRICLES 744
ENDOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF COLLOID CYSTS 764
MANAGEMENT OF PINEAL REGION TUMORS 775
EPIDERMOID/DERMOID CYSTS 789
TUMORS OF THE FOURTH VENTRICLE AND CEREBELLUM IN ADULTS 807
VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMAS 821
BRAINSTEM TUMORS 836
MANAGEMENT OF FORAMEN MAGNUM TUMORS 859
RADIOSURGERY FOR INTRACRANIAL TUMORS 871
INTRAOPERATIVE EXPLORATIONS 890
ULTRASOUND-GUIDED NEUROSURGERY 891
BRAIN NEURONAVIGATION FOR DEEP- SEATED TARGETS 911
BRAIN MAPPING 933
INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY IN NEUROSURGERY 944
PEDIATRICS 966
SPECIFICITIES OF, AND CHANGES IN, PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY 967
CRANIAL TRAUMAS IN CHILDREN 978
MANAGEMENT OF HYDROCEPHALUS IN CHILDHOOD 1005
INTRACRANIAL TUMORS IN CHILDHOOD 1022
NONSYNDROMIC CRANIOSYNOSTOSES 1039
MANAGEMENT OF LUMBOSACRAL LIPOMAS 1063
MANAGEMENT OF ENCEPHALOCELES 1079
EPILEPSY SURGERY IN CHILDREN 1087
VOLUME 3 1094
SPINE 1094
MANAGEMENT OF SPINE TRAUMAS AND SPINAL CORD INJURY 1095
APPROACHES TO CERVICAL SPINE 1117
MANAGEMENT OF DEGENERATIVE DISEASE OF THE CERVICAL SPINE 1137
MANAGEMENT OF LUMBAR DISC HERNIATIONS AND DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF LUMBAR SPINE 1153
MANAGEMENT OF LUMBAR SPONDYLOLISTHESIS 1171
NON-TRAUMATIC EXTRA-MEDULLARY SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION 1185
INTRAMEDULLARY TUMORS 1206
CHIARI MALFORMATION 1221
SYRINGOMYELIA 1234
INFECTIONS IN SPINE 1251
FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY 1268
STEREOTACTIC TECHNIQUES 1269
SELECTIVE THALAMOTOMY 1281
TARGETS FOR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION IN FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY 1300
FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE 1320
FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY FOR DYSTONIAS 1339
NEUROSURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CANCER PAIN 1357
NEUROSURGERY FOR NEUROPATHIC PAIN 1377
MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION FOR HEMIFACIAL SPASM 1401
MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION FOR TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA 1416
NEUROSURGERY FOR TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA 1431
NEUROSURGERY FOR SPASTICITY 1446
INTRATHECAL BACLOFEN THERAPY (ITB) 1448
SELECTIVE PERIPHERAL NEUROTOMIES (SPN) 1450
SURGERY ON DORSAL SPINAL ROOTS 1458
SURGERY IN THE SPINAL DORSAL ROOT ENTRY ZONE ( DREZ) 1461
SURGERY OF THE SPINAL CORD 1464
SELECTIVE DORSAL RHIZOTOMY FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD SPASTICITY 1468
STATE-OF-THE-ART OF SURGICAL THERAPIES FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: DEPRESSION 1479
NEUROSURGERY FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: OBSESSIVE- COMPULSIVE DISORDER 1486
NEUROSURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF EPILEPSY IN ADULTS 1498
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY APPLIED TO NEUROSURGERY 1519
NEURONAL TRANSPLANTATION: A REVIEW 1538
PERIPHERAL NERVES 1549
MANAGEMENT OF NERVE INJURIES ( WITH EMPHASIS ON NERVE ACTION POTENTIAL ( NAP) RECORDINGS*) 1550
TUNNEL COMPRESSION SYNDROMES OF MEDIAN AND ULNAR NERVES 1572
TUMORS OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVES 1593
EDUCATION 1605
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMITTEE OF THE WFNS 1606
WHAT DO YOUNG NEUROSURGEONS REALLY NEED 1611
THE ROLE OF THE WORLD FEDERATION OF NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD NEUROSURGERY 1616
EPILOGUE 1622
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1623
AUTHOR INDEX 1632
CONTENTS 1634