Amgad S. Hanna – författare

Practical Q&A guide enhanced with unique diagrams and tables to ace the ABNS primary exam!

Neurosurgery Primary Examination Review: High Yield Questions, Answers, Diagrams, and Tables by Amgad S. Hanna addresses the knowledge gaps in currently existing neurosurgical board study guides. It is based on a collection of highly effective practice questions previously administered to neurosurgical residents at the University of Wisconsin. Each chapter covers two to three topics with 60 multiple choice and matching questions and only one correct answer. The reader-friendly content and layout make it easy to organize and review the complex subject matter in preparation for the ABNS written exam or for educational review.

Section I is divided into 20 chapters with questions followed by answer keys. This section covers anatomy, neurology, pathology, radiology, critical care, neurosurgery, and neurobiology. Chapters 17-20 cover comprehensive exam questions and answers across all specialty areas including sarcoidosis, lead toxicity, central neurocytoma, and prion disease.

Key Highlights

This concise textbook is a must-have reference for all neurosurgical residents preparing to sit for the ABNS primary exam. Its format is also ideal for incorporating into the neurosurgical curriculum or as a study guide for the maintenance of certification exams.

Anatomy and Exposures of Spinal Nerves, first edition was published in 2015. This book is a comprehensive illustrated surgical guide to operative exposures of nerves. Each chapter is devoted to a particular nerve and describes its origin, anatomical relations and variabilities, branches, surgical approaches, and clinical significance. The text is concise and easy to read, complemented by informative color photos from dissections and surgical procedures. Importantly, this book is accompanied by videos of different approaches. The book will be especially valuable for residents and fellows in training and candidates for oral board and maintenance of certification (MOC) examinations. It is also designed to provide a quick illustrated review for surgeons unfamiliar with a procedure. It should take less than 10 minutes to review each approach, including watching the video.

After a very successful first edition, and translation to Chinese and Russian, this second edition provides an update that includes many advances in the field of nerve surgery, especially with newer surgical techniques. Chapters on neonatal brachial plexus injury, nerve transfers for spinal cord injury, lower extremity nerve transfers, transposition of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, surgery for torticollis and spasticity, multiple pain procedures including percutaneous nerve stimulation, and secondary orthopedic reconstructions have been added. A whole section on nerve fundamentals was added and includes histology, electrodiagnostics, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging. This edition will provide the reader with an even more comprehensive yet concise manual of the essentials of nerve surgery.

This book addresses the severe knowledge deficit in peripheral nerve amongst neurosurgeons, however this topic represents an integral part of the oral board examination. The book employs a case based approach with the highest-yield scenarios for oral boards, primarily focusing on nerve entrapments, trauma and tumors. Thanks to its question and answer format, the reader is encouraged to think about the cases and questions as if taking the real exam before they check the answers. The work also includes common pitfalls, a section on nerve examinations including video recordings, and a section on important clinical findings that should be diagnosed from the picture. The book not only serves neurosurgeons, but also plastic surgeons, orthopedists, and neurologists.