Cranial Osteomyelitis

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 theOpen 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.

“This unique reference book is well organized into six main parts containing a total of 16 chapters … . we strongly recommend this unique work as a practical and quick source of information for all pediatric neurosurgeons and neurologists, radiologists, and infectious disease consultants who feel a need to fill a gap in their knowledge base.” (Ahmet T. Turgut and Mehmet Turgut, Child's Nervous System, November, 2016)

• Introduction, Definitions, and Historical Aspects.- Epidemiology and Risk Factors.- Different Pathogens Involved.- Histopathologic Changes.- Pathophysiology and Anatomical Spreads of Infection.- Main Clinical Presentations.- Laboratory Findings.- Imaging Studies.- Differential Diagnoses: Clinical and Imaging.- General Considerations and Surgical Therapy.- Antimicrobial and Medical Therapy.- Adjuvant Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.- Outcomes and Prognoses.- Unusual Pathogens.- Special Clinical Situations.- Preventive Measures Against Cranial Bone Infection.