Essential Neurosurgery

Professor Andrew H. Kaye, MBBS MD FRACSJames Stewart Professor of Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaDirector of Neurosurgery and Director, The Melbourne Neuroscience Centre, The Royal Melbourne Hospital.He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, which is the official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia and the Australian Association of Neurologists.

"What it lacks in colour, it more than makes up with some fantastic diagrams, pictures and scans showing the important pathology of a number of core problems. It guides the reader from clinical presentation all the way through to postoperative care. Definitely worth a look."- Black Bag. Bristol Medical School Magazine. Winter 2005Review quotations from the previous edition  ‘flowing and well highlighted text keeps the reader interested in the subject’British Journal of Neurosurgery  ‘an excellent text…well organised and clearly set out’Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

• Preface to the Third Edition, viiPreface to the First Edition, ix1 Neurological assessment and examination, 12 Neurosurgical investigations, 143 Raised intracranial pressure and hydrocephalus, 274 Head injuries, 405 Traumatic intracranial haematomas, 566 Brain tumours, 647 Benign brain tumours, 938 Pituitary tumours, 1099 Subarachnoid haemorrhage, 12510 Stroke, 140Stephen M. Davis MD, FRACP11 Developmental abnormalities, 15812 Infections of the central nervous system, 17013 Low back pain and leg pain, 18514 Cervical disc disease and cervical spondylosis, 19715 Spinal cord compression, 20616 Spinal injuries, 22517 Peripheral nerve entrapments, injuries and tumours, 23418 Facial pain and hemifacial spasm, 24819 Pain —neurosurgical management, 25420 Movement disorders —neurosurgical aspects, 26321 Epilepsy and its neurosurgical aspects, 269Christine Kilpatrick MD, FRACPIndex, 281