Category: Neurosurgery

By Frank D. Vrionis

Praise for this book:

This is a phenomenal board evaluate booklet that greater than satisfactorily
covers the cloth that's established at the ABPN examination. even though now not each person has
the comparable studying variety or method of board examine, few will disagree that this
is a well-written and noteworthy evaluation e-book. it really is thorough and concise, and
the font and selection of colours is straightforward at the eyes. — Doody's
Review

Comprehensive Board evaluate in Neurology, moment Edition, is a vital source for neurology citizens and fellows
studying for the Resident In-Service education examination (RITE) and the yankee Board
of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) board exam. it's also helpful for
neurologists getting ready for recertification assessments. Written in a concise define
format, the textual content distills the entire info normally had to grasp the
RITE and ABPN examinations.

Updates integrated during this moment version comprise a piece on coma, multiplied insurance of epilepsy, an outline of recent pharmacological remedies for a number of sclerosis, and lots more and plenty more!

Key Features:

• Content displays the middle carrying on with clinical
  schooling subject matters tested through the yank Academy of Neurology

• Full-color, exact illustrations and pathology
  photographs support elucidate the textual content
• Filled with effective precis tables and boxed
  content material to spotlight the main salient "take-aways"
• A new appendix, "Tight organization List," allows readers to acknowledge normally linked scientific phrases in a multiple-choice setting

This trustworthy overview e-book includes every little thing had to effectively arrange for board assessments or recertification tests in neurology.

By Walter Grand

A accomplished, illustrated evaluation of the whole vasculature of the mind and cranial base, in keeping with hundreds and hundreds of dissections played by means of the authors. The textual content additionally covers venous constructions, for program in neuroendovascular intervention and neurosurgical tactics.

By Jaime Gasco

Presented in a hugely effective question-and-answer layout, The crucial Neurosurgery Companion is a conveyable instruction manual for speedy referencing of key strategies encountered in neurosurgical perform. With a robust specialise in the realities citizens face on a daily basis, the booklet covers functional concerns resembling tips to follow to residency courses, what to do in the course of rounds, and the way to check sufferers, in addition to extra complicated matters in all parts of neurosurgical management.

Key Features:

• More than 5,000 person questions with
  corresponding solutions in tabular layout distill quite a lot of info

• Detailed colour illustrations create visible summaries
  of advanced content material
• A logical development of trouble, from uncomplicated
  techniques to high-level surgical issues
• Reviews either key basics and extra complex
  medical options in neurosurgery
• Includes a useful appendix highlighting surgical anatomy pearls

Residents all for the perform of neurosurgery around the world will wish this compelling advisor of their armamentarium no matter if for day-by-day rounds or getting ready for forums. Clinicians will locate it a invaluable source to refer to in daily practice.

Written via a world-class workforce of multidisciplinary specialists, this is the
first definitive reference on those hugely demanding tumors taking place in
the cranium base and backbone. masking every little thing from their embryology and
pathology, medical presentation and prognosis, radiologic visual appeal, surgical
treatment, radiation remedy, and analysis, it's the so much accomplished e-book
ever written at the subject.

Special features:

• All on hand info on those tumors packed into
  a unmarried quantity

• high quality illustrations that make anatomy and
  surgical method crystal-clear
• participants contain: Albert Rhoton Jr., Harry Van
  Loveren, Laligam Sekhar, Robert Spetzler, and Chandranath Sen
• contains substitute tools of remedy, ranging
  from surgical procedure to radiation modalities, with recurrence and end result assessment

For all experts
who deal with tumors of the cranium base and backbone, together with neurosurgeons,
otolaryngologists-head and neck surgeons, ophthalmologic surgeons, and
orthopedic surgeons.

By Wolfgang Seeger

During this atlas anatomical elements vital for combos of microsurgical and endoscopic techniques are provided and illustrated. glossy imaging thoughts are priceless for the three-d orientation yet don't convey adequate information for endoscopic interventions. The small visible fields want a mixture of the depiction of good information and of the 3-dimensional presentation of enormous components. in addition, issues of little identified anatomical average variations of the objective parts could come up. accordingly, quite a few universal anatomical editions are established on the subject of their impression for the surgical strategy. the foundation for Professor Seeger’s popular drawings were anatomical arrangements, cadaver dissections and intraoperative photos. the right kind proportions are derived through measuring the distances of anatomical landmarks of cranial arrangements and from CT and MR pictures. The concise textual content helps the certainty of the anatomical figures.

The cerebello-pontine attitude has continually posed a problem to the neurosurgeon, the otoneurosurgeon, and the neuroradiologist. attitude lots that are very small and tough to notice often produce signs, yet could stay silent whereas starting to be to unheard of measurement. The neuroradiologist should have enterprise knowl­ fringe of the scientific manifestations of the various attitude lesions so one can tailor his reviews to the sufferers' wishes. nearly all of perspective lesions are benign; hence winning surgical procedure has the potential of entire therapy. attitude lesions as a rule come up at the side of important neurovascular constructions, and infrequently displace those clear of their anticipated positions. huge lesions might attenuate the vestibulocochlear and facial nerves and skinny them over their dome. because the nerves frequently stay practical, the physician then faces the necessity to separate the tumor from the contiguous nerve, with maintenance of neurological functionality. reckoning on the precise position and extension of the lesion, resection could most sensible be tried through otologic or neurosurgical methods. The neuroradiologist needs to verify - accurately -the presence, website, measurement, and extension( s) of the lesion and the displacement of significant neurovascular buildings as a advisor to choosing the road of surgical assault. because the arteries, veins, and nerves that traverse the attitude are wonderful buildings, the neuroradiologist needs to practice reviews of the best quality to do his task successfully.

Surgical administration of Spinal wire damage: Controversies and Consensus stories the controversies bearing on the emergency, diagnostic, clinical, and surgical administration of spinal twine harm (SCI).

In vitro stories, animal types, and medical consequence analyses have all didn't yield incontrovertible guidance that outline the function of surgical procedure in SCI. accordingly, there is not any consensus in regards to the necessity, timing, nature, or strategy of surgical intervention. during this concise but accomplished e-book many of the top specialists within the box scrutinize the clinical facts and summarize the principles of rational remedy paradigms.

Specific subject matters include:

• the timing of decompressive surgery
• the adjunctive use of solumedrol
• management of penetrating injuries
• radiographic evaluation
• spinal stabilization
• pediatric SCI

Surgical administration of Spinal wire Injury is a vital new e-book for all contributors of the sufferer care staff considering spinal twine injury.