Practical Handbook of Neurosurgery

Cranial Approaches.- Microneurosurgery: Principles, Applications, and Training.- Endoscopy: Principles and Techniques.- Image-Guided Radiosurgery Using the Gamma Knife.- How to Perform Surgery for Intracranial (Convexity) Meningiomas.- The "Dangerous" Intracranial Veins.- How to Perform Subfronto-Orbitonasal Approach for Anterior Cranial Base Surgery.- How to Perform Cranio-Orbital Zygomatic Approaches.- How to Perform Middle Fossa/Sphenoid Wing Approaches.- How to Perform Central Skull Base Approaches.- How to Perform Selective Extradural Anterior Clinoidectomy.- How to Perform Approaches of the Orbit.- How to Perform Transsphenoidal Approaches.- How to Perform Transoral Approaches.- How to Perform Posterior Fossa Approaches.- How to perform transpetrosal approaches.- Vascular Lesions.- Principles of Microneurosurgery for Safe and Fast Surgery.- Surgical Management of Intracranial Aneurysms of the Anterior Circulation.- Intracranial Aneurysms in the Posterior Circulation.- Giant Aneurysms.- Arteriovenous Malformations of the Brain.- Intracranial Cavernomas.- Carotid Endarterectomy.- Brain Revascularization by Extracranial-Intracranial Arterial Bypasses.- Management of Intracranial Venous Pathologies - Potential Role of Venous Stenting.- Traumas, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Infections.- The Glasgow Coma and Outcome Scales: Practical Questions and Answers.- Cranial Trauma in Adults.- Hydrocephalus in Adults (Including Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Syndrome).- Arachnoid Cysts.- Brain Infections.- Parasitoses of the Central Nervous System: Hydatidosis.- Parasitoses of the Central Nervous System: Cysticercosis.- Intracranial Tumors.- Classification of Brain Tumors and Corresponding Treatments.- Stereotactic Biopsies for Tumors: Indications, Limits, Diagnosis with Histopathology and other Laboratory Techniques.- Management of (Malignant) Intracranial Gliomas.- Management of Lymphomas.- Management of Anterior Fossa Lesions.- Management of Tumors of Middle Fossa.- Management of Central Skull Base Tumors.- Management of Cavernous Sinus Lesions.- Management of Convexity Meningiomas.- Meningiomas Involving the Major Dural Sinuses: Management of the Sinus Invasion.- Posterior Fossa Meningiomas.- Endoscopic Surgery for Skull Base Meningiomas.- Management of Pituitary Adenomas.- Craniopharyngiomas.- Management of Tumors of the Anterior Third and Lateral Ventricles.- Endoscopic Management of Colloid Cysts.- Management of Pineal Region Tumors.- Epidermoid/Dermoid Cysts.- Tumors of the Fourth Ventricle and Cerebellum in Adults.- Vestibular Schwannomas.- Brainstem Tumors.- Management of Foramen Magnum Tumors.- Radiosurgery for Intracranial Tumors.- Intraoperative Explorations.- Ultrasound-Guided Neurosurgery.- Brain Neuronavigation for Deep-Seated Targets.- Brain Mapping.- Intraoperative Neurophysiology in Neurosurgery.- Pediatrics.- Specificities of, and Changes in, Pediatric Neurosurgery.- Cranial Traumas in Children.- Management of Hydrocephalus in Childhood.- Intracranial Tumors in Childhood.- Nonsyndromic Craniosynostoses.- Management of Lumbosacral Lipomas.- Management of Encephaloceles.- Epilepsy Surgery in Children.- Spine.- Management of Spine Traumas and Spinal Cord Injury.- Approaches to Cervical Spine.- Management of Degenerative Disease of the Cervical Spine.- Management of Lumbar Disc Herniations and Degenerative Diseases of Lumbar Spine.- Management of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis.- Non-Traumatic Extra-Medullary Spinal Cord Compression.- Intramedullary Tumors.- Chiari Malformation.- Syringomyelia.- Infections in Spine.- Functional Neurosurgery.- Stereotactic Techniques.- Selective Thalamotomy.- Targets for Electrical Stimulation in Functional Neurosurgery.- Functional Neurosurgery for Parkinson's Disease.- Functional Neurosurgery for Dystonias.- Neurosurgical Management of Cancer Pain.- Neurosurgery for Neuropathic Pain.- Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm.- Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia.- Neurosurgeryfor Trigeminal Neuralgia.- Neurosurgery for Spasticity.- Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy for the Treatment of Childhood Spasticity.- State-of-the-Art of Surgical Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders: Depression.- Neurosurgery for Psychiatric Disorders: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.- Neurosurgical Management of Epilepsy in Adults.- Neurophysiology Applied to Neurosurgery.- Neuronal Transplantation: A Review.- Peripheral Nerves.- Management of Nerve Injuries (with Emphasis on Nerve Action Potential (NAP) Recordings).- Tunnel Compression Syndromes of Median and Ulnar Nerves.- Tumors of the Peripheral Nerves.- Education.- Message from the Chairman of the Education and Training Committee of the WFNS.- What do Young Neurosurgeons Really Need.- The Role of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies in the Development of World Neurosurgery.- Epilogue.