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Challenging concepts in neurosurgery : cases with expert commentary / edited by Robin Bhatia, Ian Sabin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Challenging concepts in series.
- Challenging concepts in series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nervous system--Surgery.
- Nervous system.
- Nervous system--Surgery--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- This 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- EXPERTS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- 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 2
- 10 Multimodality monitoring in severe traumatic brain injury
- 11 Intracranial abscess
- 12 Deep brain stimulation for debilitating Parkinson's disease
- 13 Endoscopic resection of agrowth 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
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-101780-9
- 0-19-177919-9
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