An Outline of Neurosurgery

1 Neuroanatomy.- Skull.- Brain and Ventricles.- Cerebral Hemispheres.- Brain Stem.- Spinal Cord and Vertebrae.- Conduction Tracts.- Peripheral Nerves.- Cerebral Vessels.- 2 Neurologic Examination.- Diagnostics of Neurologic Diseases.- Neurologic Examination.- Regional Diagnosis.- Localized Cerebrospinal Syndromes.- 3 Neurosurgical Consideration of Major Neurologic Symptoms.- Headache.- Disturbance of Consciousness.- Convulsions.- Dementia.- 4 Principal Pathologic Changes in Neurosurgery.- Intracranial Hypertension.- Brain Edema.- Cerebral Herniation.- Brain Death.- 5 Supplementary Neurologic Examinations.- Examination of Cerebrospinal Fluid.- Neuro-ophthalmologic Examination.- Neuro-otologic Examination.- Electroencephalography.- Electromyography.- Evoked Potentials.- Monitoring of Intracranial Pressure.- Plain Skull Roentgenography.- Computed Tomography.- Cerebral Angiography.- Myelography.- Cisternography (Cisternal Scintigraphy).- Cerebral Scintigraphy.- Measurement of Cerebral Circulation.- 6 Neurosurgical Treatment.- Pharmacotherapy.- Operative Treatment.- Emergency Treatment.- 7 Head Trauma.- Head Trauma in Children.- Fractures of the Skull.- Acute Extradural Hematoma.- Acute Subdural Hematoma.- Acute Intracerebral Hematoma.- Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Chronic Subdural Hematoma in Infants.- Secondary Disorders and Sequelae of Head Trauma.- 8 Brain Tumors.- Glioma.- Brain Tumors in Adults.- Brain Tumors in Children.- Tumors of the Skull.- 9 Cerebrovascular Diseases.- Cerebral Hemorrhage.- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH).- Cerebral Aneurysms.- Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation.- Ischemic Cerebrovascular Diseases.- Moyamoya Disease.- 10 Malformations.- Infantile Hydrocephalus.- Craniosynostosis.- Cranioschisis (Cranium Bifidum).- Rachischisis (Spina Bifida).- Neurocutaneous Syndromes (Phacomatosis).- 11 Inflammations.- Brain Abscess.- Meningitis.- Other Intracranial Infections.- 12 Diseases of the Spinal Cord and Vertebrae.- Spinal Cord Tumors.- Vascular Disorders of the Spinal Cord.- Spinal Cord Injury.- Cervical Spondylosis.- Herniated Intervertebral Disk of the Lumbar Vertebrae.- Other Vertebral Diseases.- 13 Neurologic Functional Diseases.- Pain.- Epilepsy.- Involuntary Movements.- 14 Peripheral Nerve Diseases.- Peripheral Nerve Injury.- Entrapment Neuropathy.- Tumors of Peripheral Nerves.- References.