Challenging Concepts in Neurosurgery

Cases with Expert Commentary

AvRobin Bhatia,Ian Sabin

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Part of the Challenging Concepts in series, this book is a case-based guide to challenging clinical scenarios in neurosurgery covering the major sub-speciality areas of oncology, vascular neurosurgery, brain and spine trauma, paediatrics, spinal degenerative disease, peripheral and cranial nerves, functional neurosurgery and infection. Specific cases are examined with consideration of clinical presentation, diagnostics, and surgical principles, with a summary of evidence from the neurosurgical literature highlighting areas of interest and controversy. This book serves as a useful and engaging resource for consultants and trainees in neurosurgery as well as in the disciplines of neurology, maxillofacial surgery, spinal surgery and neuro-oncology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-28
Mått:190 x 245 x 11 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Challenging Cases
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199656400

Utforska kategorier

Neurokirurgi inom Medicin
Neurologi och klinisk neurofysiologi inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Robin Bhatia is a Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon working in The Great Western Hospital and Oxford University Hospital. He started to write and edit this book when he was an ST7 neurosurgical trainee in the London Deanery. His clinical practice is now exclusively spinal surgery, but his doctorate research investigated traumatic brain injury. Ian Sabin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at St Barts and the Royal London NHS Trust and at The Wellington Hospital. He is Director of the London Gamma Knife Centre at St Barts Hospital and Neurosurgical Tutor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His clinical interests include Skull Base Surgery (Acoustic Neuromas, Pituitary Tumours, and Trigeminal Neuralgia), Neuro-Oncology, Cervical Spine Surgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. He also holds a research interest in endoscopic minimally invasive neurosurgery.

Recensioner i media

Little nuggets of wisdom disguised as clinical tips and learning points gleaned from years of experience offer very realistic advice on clinical management... Medical students interested in Neurosurgery would find this a helpful resource.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The management of chronic subdural haematoma ; 2. Glioblastoma Multiforme ; 3. Spondylolisthesis ; 4. Intramedullary spinal cord tumour ; 5. Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ; 6. Management of Lumbosacral Lipoma in Childhood ; 7. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension ; 8. Colloid cyst of the third ventricle ; 9. Bilateral Vestibular Schwannomas: the challenge of Neurofibromatosis Type II ; 10. Multimodality Monitoring In Severe Traumatic Brain Injury ; 11. Intracranial Abscess ; 12. Deep Brain Stimulation for Debilitating Parkinson's Disease ; 13. Endoscopic resection of a growth hormone-secreting pituitary macroadenoma ; 14. Trigeminal neuralgia ; 15. Cerebral metastasis ; 16. The surgical management of the rheumatoid spine ; 17. Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy ; 18. Brainstem cavernous malformation ; 19. Peripheral Nerve Injury ; 20. Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage ; 21. Low Grade Glioma ; 22. Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation