Brain and Spine Surgery in the Elderly / edited by Moncef Berhouma, Pierre Krolak-Salmon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berhouma, Moncef, editor.

Krolak-Salmon, Pierre, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Anesthesiology.

Critical care medicine.

Geriatrics.

Oncology.

Neurology.

Nervous system--Surgery.

Nervous system.

Medicine & Public Health.

Neurosurgery.

Geriatrics/Gerontology.

Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

Local Subjects:

Medicine & Public Health.

Neurosurgery.

Geriatrics/Gerontology.

Neurology.

Oncology.

Anesthesiology.

Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXI, 529 pages 85 illustrations, 34 illustrations in color.)

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

System Details:

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Summary:

This unique and richly illustrated volume presents the state of the art in the comprehensive management of major neurosurgical diseases in the elderly (aged 65 and over). It explores all of the common neurosurgical pathologies affecting elderly patients, and emphasizes the paramount importance of tailored management strategies for quality of life. It highlights updated techniques for anaesthesia and critical care, as well as minimally invasive neurosurgical methods intended for this specific group of patients. Radiosurgery treatment is also discussed, in particular for brain tumours. In western societies, the proportion of elderly citizens has nearly reached 20%, and shows no signs of slowing down. The management of neurosurgical conditions in this particular population requires specific multidisciplinary strategies. To address this situation, a team of internationally respected contributors accurately describe degenerative and traumatic spinal diseases, which account for the majority of admissions among the elderly, as well as brain tumours and intracranial haemorrhages, aspects that are raising new ethical issues. The book mainly addresses the needs of neurosurgeons and geriatric neurologists, but also neuro-oncologists and neuro-anaesthesists working with elderly patients, as well as students in these disciplines.

Contents:

FOREWORD

PREFACE: Epistemology, rationale and demographics of geriatric neurosurgery

PART 1 - NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ELDERLY - Chapter 1. Physiology of the ageing nervous system

Chapter 2. Neurological assessment and neurocognitive evaluation of the elderly

PART 2 - NEUROANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE - Chapter 3. Neuroanesthesia of the elderly

Chapter 4. Perioperative neurotoxicity in the elderly

PART 3 - INTRACRANIAL TUMORS - Chapter 5. Intracranial meningiomas

Chapter 6. Brain gliomas

Chapter 7. Pituitary adenomas

Chapter 8. Vestibular schwannomas

Chapter 9. Brain metastases

Chapter 10. CNS Lymphoma

PART 4 - SPINAL PATHOLOGIES - Chapter 11. Degenerative cervical spine

Chapter 12. Degenerative lumbar spine

Chapter 13. Spinal injuries of the elderly

Chapter 14. Vertebral tumors of the elderly

Chapter 15. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors

Chapter 16. Intradural extramedullary spinal tumors

Chapter 17. Spinal infections

PART 5 - HEAD INJURY - Chapter 18. Traumatic brain injury in the elderly

Chapter 19. Chronic subdural hematoma

PART 6 - NEUROVASCULAR - Chapter 20. Subarachnoid hemorrhage in the elderly

Chapter 21. Intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage

Chapter 22. Malignant pseudo-tumoral stroke

PART 7 - HYDROCEPHALUS IN THE ELDERLY

PART 8 - TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA

PART 9 - ETHICAL ISSUES IN NEUROSURGICAL ELDERLY PATIENTS

APPENDIX.

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Printed edition:

ISBN:

9783319402321

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