Cranial Osteomyelitis (eBook)

Ali AKHADDAR, MD, is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Faculty of Medicine, Mohammed V University in Rabat (Morocco) and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Avicenne Military Hospital of Marrakech (Morocco). He is an Expert Member of the Scientific Committees of the National Scientific and Technological Research Center of Morocco (CNRST). Dr Akhaddar is a Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the French speaking society of Neurosurgery (SNCLF) and the Military Neurosurgeons Committee in the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS). He has received many awards during his career, including from the Moroccan Society of Neurosurgery, the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies [Traveling Fellowship Award: Nagoya 2007, Boston 2009 and Seoul 2013], the University of Mohammed V of Rabat and the French Society of Hospitals’ History (SFHH).Dr Akhaddar is a member of the editorial board of the Open Neurosurgery Journal and Médecine du Maghreb and is a reviewing editor for many medical journals. He is the author of three previous books; he has authored and co-authored more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (140 indexed in PubMed*) and five book chapters.

Dedication

Forewords

Acknowledgements

Part I    General Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction, Definitions and Historical Aspects                              

 Part II   Basic Information for Cranial Osteomyelitis         

Chapter 2   Epidemiology and Risk Factors                                                            

Chapter 3   Different Pathogens Involved                                                           

Chapter 4   Histopathologic Changes                                           

Chapter 5   Pathophysiology and Anatomical Spreads of Infection                     

Part III     Diagnosis of Cranial Osteomyelitis

Chapter 6   Main Clinical Presentations               

Chapter 7   Laboratory Findings                                                                                              

Chapter 8  Imaging Studies                                                                                      

Chapter 9  Differential Diagnoses: Clinical and Imaging                                                                                

Part IV   Management of Cranial Osteomyelitis

 Chapter 10   General Considerations and Surgical Therapy                                                                             

Chapter 11   Antimicrobial and Medical Therapy                                                                                                      

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Chapter 13  Outcomes and Prognoses                               



Part V    Special Conditions in Cranial Osteomyelitis

 

Chapter 14   Unusual Pathogens                            

 Chapter 15  Part VI    Prevention of Cranial Osteomyelitis

 Chapter 16   Preventive Measures Against Cranial Bone Infection

 Index