Youmans neurological surgery

Table of Contents: “…[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…”