Youmans neurological surgery
Helps perform the effective neurosurgical procedures. This title provides details you need to know about functional and restorative neurosurgery/deep brain stimulation, stem cell biology, radiological and nuclear imaging, neuro-oncology, and much more.
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Philadelphia, PA
Elsevier Saunders
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- volume 1 : Introduction and basic science
- General neurosurgery
- Epilepsy
- Functional neurosurgery
- volume 2 : Oncology
- Pain
- Pediatrics
- volume 3 : Peripheral nerve
- Radiation
- Spine
- volume 4 : Trauma
- Vascular
- [vol. 1] : Historical overview of neurosurgery
- Surgical anatomy of the brain
- Molecular biology primer for neurosurgeons
- Neuroembryology
- Stem cell biology in the central nervous system
- Neurons and neuroglia
- Cellular mechanisms of brain energy metabolism
- Blood-brain barrier
- Cerebral edema
- Physiology of the cerebrospinal fluid and intracranial pressure
- Neurosurgical epidemiology and outcomes assessment
- Altered consciousness
- Neuroophthalmology
- Neurotology
- Neurourology
- Neuropsychological testing
- Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain
- Radiology of the spine
- Physiologic evaluation of the brain with magnetic resonance imaging
- Molecular imaging of the brain with positron emission tomography
- Neuroanesthesia: preoperative evaluation
- Avoidance of complications in neurosurgery
- Intracranial pressure monitoring
- Principles of neurocritical care
- Surgical planning: overview
- Positioning for cranial surgery
- Patient positioning for spinal surgery
- Positioning in peripheral nerve surgery
- Incisions and closures
- Advantages and limitations of cranial endoscopy
- Thorascopic spine surgery
- Cranioplasty
- Production and flow of cerebrospinal fluid
- Clinical evaluation of adult hydrocephalus
- Shunting
- Adult hydrocephalus: the role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy
- Pathophysiology of subdural hematomas
- Medical and surgical management of chronic subdural hematomas
- Basic science of central nervous system infections
- Postoperative infections of the head and brain
- Postoperative infections of the spine
- The use and misuse of antibiotics in neurosurgery
- Brain abscess
- Meningitis and encephalitis
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- Parasitic infections
- Surgical risk of transmittable diseases
- Epilepsy surgery overview
- Electrophysiologic properties of the mammalian central nervous system
- Animal models of epilepsy
- Malformations of cortical development
- Diagnosis and classification of seizures and epilepsy
- Antiepileptic medications: principles of clinical use
- Continuous electroencephalography in neurological-neurosurgical intensive care: applications and value
- Neuroradiologic evaluation for epilepsy surgery
- Evaluation of patients for epilepsy surgery
- Motor, sensory, and language mapping and monitoring for cortical resections
- Auditory language mapping
- Investigation of human cognition in epilepsy surgery patients
- Intracranial monitoring
- Surgery of extratemporal lobe epilepsy
- Standard temporal lobectomy
- Selective amygdalohippocampectomy
- Tailored resections for epilepsy
- Topectomy and multiple subpial transection
- Hemispheric dissconnection procedures
- Vagus nerve stimulation for intractable epilepsy
- Radiosurgical treatment of epilepsy
- Deep brain stimulation for epilepsy
- Epilepsy surgery: outcome and complications
- Introduction
- Anatomy and synaptic connectivity of the basal ganglia
- Rationale for surgical interventions in movement disorders
- Neuropathology of movement disorders
- Clincial overview of movement disorders
- Patient selection criteria for deep brain stimulation in movement disorders
- Functional imaging in movement disorders
- Surgical management of tremor
- Pallidal interventions for Parkinson's disease
- Subthalamic deep brain stimulation for parkinson's disease
- Subthalamotomy in parkinson's disease: indications and outcome
- Deep brain stimulation for dystonia
- Deep brain stimulation: mechanisms of action
- Emerging and experimental neurosurgical treatments for parkinson's disease
- Seletive peripheral denervation for cervical dystonia
- A history of psychosurgery
- Surgery for tourette's syndrome
- Surgery for obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Surgical treatment of major depression
- Ablative surgery for spasticity
- Management of spasticity by central nervous system infusion techniques
- Treatment of intractable vertigo
- Treatment applications of cortical stimulation
- Neuroprosthestics
- [vol. 2] : Brain tumors: general considerations
- Brain tumors: an overview of current histopathologic classifications
- Brain tumor immunology and immunotherapy
- Brain tumor stem cells
- Proliferation markers in the evaluation of gliomas
- Molecular genetics and the development of targets for glioma therapy
- Growth factors in glial tumors
- The genetic origins of brain tumors
- Invasion in malignant glioma
- Angiogenesis and brain tumors: molecular targets and molecular scalpels
- Barriers to delivery of therapeutics to brain tumors
- Epidemiology of brain tumors
- Gene- and viral-based therapies for gliomas
- Clinical features: neurology of brain tumor and paraneoplastic disorders
- Radiologic features of central nervous system tumors
- Endovascular techniques for tumor embolization
- Brain tumors during pregnancy
- Principles of chemotherapy
- Brain tumor outcome studies: design and interpretation
- Frame and frameless stereotactic brain biopsy
- Basic principles of cranial surgery for brain tumors
- Basic principles of skull base surgery
- Surgical complications of brain tumors and their avoidance
- Navigation for brain tumors
- Endoscopic approaches to brain tumors
- Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging
- Low-grade gliomas: astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, and mixed glioma
- Malignant gliomas: anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma multiforme, gliosarcoma
- Unusual gliomas
- Primitive neuroectodermal tumors
- Pineal tumors
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningiomas
- Meningeal sarcoma and meningeal hemangiopericytoma
- Acoustic neuroma
- Pituitary tumors: functioning and nonfunctioning
- Craniopharyngioma
- Epidermoid, dermoid, and neurenteric cysts
- Neoplastic meningitis
- Ventricular tumors
- Overview of skull base tumors
- Chordomas and chondrosarcomas
- Glomus tumors
- Neoplasms of the paranasal sinuses
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
- Trigeminal schwannomas
- Juvenile nasal angiofibroma
- Osseous tumors
- Tumors of the orbit
- Skull tumors
- Scalp tumors
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, and xanthogranuloma
- Demyelinating disease
- Pain: general historical considerations
- Anatomy and physiology of pain
- Molecular basis of nociception
- Approach to the patient with chronic pain
- Pharmacologic treatment of pain
- Management of pain by anesthetic techniques
- Evidence-based approach to the treatment of facial pain
- Trigeminal neuralgia: diagnosis and nonoperative management
- Percutaneous procedures for trigeminal neuralgia
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia
- Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia
- Neurosurgical management of intractable pain
- Evidence base: neurostimulation for pain
- Peripheral nerve stimulation for neuropathic pain
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Motor cortex stimulation
- Evidence base for destructive procedures
- Diagnosis and management of painful neuromas
- Dorsal root entry zone lesions
- Percutaneous cordotomy and trigeminal tractotomy-nucleotomy
- Neuroanesthesia in children
- Neurocritical care in children
- Normal and abnormal embryology of the brain
- Encephalocele
- Dandy-Walker syndrome
- Arachnoid cysts
- Chiari malformations
- Craniopagus twins
- Genetics of craniosynostosis
- Craniosynostosis
- Syndromic craniosynostosis
- Endoscopic treatment of craniosynostosis
- Plagiocephaly
- Hydrocephalus in children: approach to the patient
- Infantile posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus
- Cerebrospinal fluid physiology
- Experimental hydrocephalus
- Ventricular shunting procedures
- Neuroendoscopy
- Cerebrospinal fluid devices
- Shunt infections and their treatment
- General approaches and considerations for pediatric brain tumors
- Optic pathway hypothalamic gliomas
- Thalamic tumors
- Choroid plexus tumors
- Pediatric craniopharyngioma
- Supratentorial hemispheric tumors
- Ependymoma
- Medulloblastoma in children
- Cerebellar astrocytomas
- Brainstem glioma
- Intracranial germ cell tumors
- Familial tumors (neurocutaneous syndromes)
- Skull tumors and fibrous dysplasia
- Moyamoya disease
- Vein of galen aneurysmal malformation
- Management of severe head injury in children
- Child abuse
- Growing skull fracture
- Birth head trauma
- Birth brachial plexus injury
- Myelomeningocele and myelocystocele
- Lipomyelomeningocele
- Split spinal cord
- Tethered spinal cord: fatty filum terminale, meningocele manque, and dermal sinus tracts
- Developmental abnormalities of the craniocervical junction
- Achondroplasia and other dwarfisms
- Cervical spine disorders in children
- Intramedullary spinal cord tumors in children
- Spine tumors in children
- Thoracolumbar spinal disorders in pediatric patients
- Vertebral column and spinal cord injuries in children
- Clinical features and management of cerebral palsy
- Intrathecal baclofen therapy for cerebral palsy
- Selective dorsal rhizotomy for spastic cerebral palsy
- Dystonia in children
- [vol. 3] : General principles in evaluating and treating peripheral nerve pathology, injuries, and entrapments and their historical context
- Pathophysiology of surgical nerve disorders
- Peripheral nerve examination, evaluation, and biopsy
- Electrodiagnostic evaluation of peripheral nerves: electromyography and nerve conduction studies
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Operative neurophysiology of peripheral nerves
- Imaging for peripheral nerve disorders
- Distal entrapment syndromes: carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel, peroneal, and tarsal tunnel
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Piriformis syndrome, obturator internus syndrome, pudendal nerve entrapment, and other pelvic entrapments
- Techniques and options in nerve reconstruction and repair
- Management of acute peripheral nerve injuries
- Early management of brachial plexus injuries
- Secondary procedures for brachial plexus injuries
- Nerve injuries of the lower extremity
- Benign tumors of the peripheral nerve
- Surgery for malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors
- Pain, complications, and latrogenic injury in nerve surgery
- General and historical considerations of radiotherapy and radiosurgery
- Principles of radiation therapy
- The radiobiology and physics of radiosurgery
- Fractionated radiation therapy for malignant brain tumors
- Fractionated radiation therapy for benign brain tumors
- Fractionated radiotherapy for spine tumors
- Interstitial and intracavitary irradiation of brain tumors
- Proton radiosurgery
- Linear accelerator radiosurgery: technical aspects
- Gamma knife radiosurgery
- Image-guided robotic radiosurgery: the CyberKnife
- Radiosurgery of malignant tumors
- Radiosurgery of benign intracranial tumors
- Radiosurgery for intracranial vascular malformations
- Radiosurgery for functional disorders
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of spinal metastases
- Radiosurgery for benign spine tumors and vascular malformations
- Overview and historical considerations
- Concepts and mechanisms of spinal biomechanics
- Biomaterials and biomechanics of spinal arthroplasty
- Principles of translation of biologic therapies in spinal cord injury
- Current status and future direction of management of spinal cord injury
- Intraoperative monitoring of the spinal cord and nerve roots
- Concepts of disk degeneration and regeneration
- Bone metabolism and osteoporosis and its effects on spinal disease and surgical treatments
- Differential diagnosis and initial management of spine pathology
- Diagnosis and management of diskogenic lower back pain
- Metabolic and other nondegenerative causes of low back pain
- Evaluation, indications, and techniques of revision spine surgery
- Infections of the spine
- Fungal and tubercular infections of the spine
- Treatment of disk and ligamentous diseases of the cervical spine
- Posterior approach to cervical degenerative disease
- Anterior approach for cervical spondylotic myelopathy
- Spondyloarthropathies (including ankylosing spondylitis)
- Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and other enthesopathies
- Treatment of thoracic disk herniation
- Treatment of disk disease of the lumbar spine
- Lumbar spine stenosis
- Pediatric spondylolisthesis
- Adult thoracolumbar scoliosis
- Flat back and sagittal plane deformity
- Acquired abnormalities of the craniocervical junction
- Congenital abnormalities of the thoracic and lumbar spine
- Basic principles of spinal internal fixation
- Bone graft options, bone graft substitutes, and bone harvest techniques
- Cervical arthroplasty
- Lumbar arthroplasty: total disk replacement and nucleus replacement technologies
- Nucleoplasty and posterior dynamic stabilization systems
- Spinopelvic fixation
- Anterior cervical instrumentation
- Occiput, C1, and C2 instrumentation
- Posterior subaxial and cervicothoracic instrumentation
- Anterior thoracic instrumentation
- Posterior thoracic instrumentation
- Anterior lumbar instrumentation
- Posterior lumbar instrumentation
- Posterior, transforaminal, and anterior lumbar interbody fusion: techniques and instrumentation
- Image-guided spinal navigation: principles and clinical applications
- Thoracoscopic approaches to the spine
- Minimally invasive techniques for lumbar disorders
- Tumors of the craniovertebral junction
- Spinal cord tumors in adults
- Evaluation and management of spinal axis tumors: benign and primary malignant
- Evaluation and management of spinal axis tumors: metastatic
- Assessment of the cervical spine after trauma
- Evaluation and management of craniocervical dissociation
- Atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation, transverse ligament injury
- Evaluation and treatment of odontoid and hangman's fractures
- Pathology of the cervicothoracic junction: evaluation and treatment
- Transient quadriparesis and athletic injuries of the cervical spine
- Diagnosis and management of thoracic spine fractures
- Thoracolumbar trauma
- Sacral fractures
- Osteoporotic fractures: evaluation and treatment with vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
- [vol. 4] : Introduction to traumatic brain injury
- Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury
- Biomechanical basis of traumatic brain injury
- Neuropathology of traumatic brain injury
- Animal models of traumatic brain injury
- Neurochemical pathomechanisms in traumatic brain injury
- Regeneration and repair
- Current concepts of hypothermia in traumatic brain injury
- Imaging of traumatic brain injury
- Clinical pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury
- Mild traumatic brain injury in adults and concussion in sports
- Initial resuscitation, prehospital care, and emergency room care in traumatic brain injury
- Critical care management of traumatic brain injury
- Surgical management of traumatic brain injury
- Traumatic and penetrating head injuries
- Blast-induced neurotrauma
- Indications and techniques for cranial decompression after traumatic brain injury
- Craniofacial injuries
- Prognosis after traumatic brain injury
- Traumatic cerebrospinal fluid fistulas
- Rehabilitation of patients with traumatic brain injury
- Cerebral blood flow and metabolism and cerebral ischemia
- Acute medical management of ischemic/hemorrhagic stroke
- Intraoperative cerebral protection
- Circulatory arrest with deep hypothermia
- Transcranial doppler ultrasonography and neurosonology
- Neurovascular imaging
- Carotid occlusive disease: natural history and medical management
- Carotid endarterectomy
- Carotid artery angioplasty and stenting
- Blunt cerebrovascular injury
- Nonatherosclerotic carotid lesions
- Extracranial vertebral artery diseases
- Intracranial occlusive disease
- Adult moyamoya disease
- Cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis
- Nonlesional spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage
- Genetics of intracranial aneurysms
- The natural history of cerebral aneurysms
- Surgical decision making for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms
- Pathobiology of intracranial aneurysms
- Surgical decision making for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms
- Perioperative management of subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Cerebral vasospasm
- Surgical approaches to intracranial aneurysms
- Microsurgery of paraclinoid aneurysms
- Intracranial internal carotid artery aneurysms
- Anterior communicating artery aneurysms
- Microsurgery of distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysms
- Surgical management of middle cerebral artery aneurysms
- Microsurgery of vertebral artery, posterior inferior cerebellar artery, and vertebrobasilar junction aneurysms
- Basilar trunk aneurysms
- Microsurgery of basilar apex aneurysms
- Endovascular approaches to intracranial aneurysms
- Endovascular coiling of intracranial aneurysms: supporting evidence
- Endovascular stenting of intracranial aneurysms
- Endovascular hunterian ligation
- Microsurgical management of giant intracranial aneurysms
- Infectious intracranial aneurysms
- Revascularization techniques for complex aneurysms and skull base tumors
- Multimodality management of complex cerebrovascular lesions
- Traumatic cerebral aneurysms secondary to penetrating intracranial injuries
- Pathobiology of true arteriovenous malformations
- The natural history of intracranial vascular malformations
- Therapeutic decision making
- Adjuvant endovascular management of brain arteriovenous malformations
- Endovascular management of arteriovenous malformations for cure
- Microsurgical management of arteriovenous malformations
- Surgical and radiosurgical management of giant arteriovenous malformations
- Carotid-cavernous fistulas
- Treatment of other intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas
- Natural history of cavernous malformations
- Genetics of cerebral cavernous malformations
- Supratentorial and infratentorial cavernous malformations
- Classification of spinal arteriovenous lesions: arteriovenous fistulas and arteriovenous malformations
- Endovascular treatment of spinal vascular malformations
- Spinal vascular malformations
- Pregnancy and the vascular lesion