Table of Contents

to Neurosurgery.- Training and Education.- Training in Neurosurgery.- Basic Training in Technical Skills: Introduction to Learning ‘Surgical Skills’ in a Constructive Way.- The Neurocranium.- Basics.- Brain Tumors.- Vascular Diseases.- Infectious Disease.- Trauma.- Developmental and Acquired Anomalies.- Movement Rehabilitation for Trauma and Vascular Patients: Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke.- The Spine and Spinal Cord.- Basics.- Spinal Tumours.- Degenerative Disease.- Spinal Vascular Diseases.- Infectious Disease of the Spine.- Spinal Trauma.- Syringomyelia.- Treatment and Rehabilitation of Patients with Spinal Cord Lesions.- Peripheral Nerve Surgery.- Basics: Aetiology, Pathophysiology, General Symptomatology and Diagnosis of Peripheral Nerve Injuries.- Clinical Neurophysiology.- Therapy of Peripheral Nerve Lesions.- Nerve Compression Syndromes in the Extremities.- Peripheral Nerve Tumours.- Autonomic Nervous System.- Cranial Nerves.- Cranial Nerve Deficits.- Cranial Nerve Compression Syndromes.- Conclusion.- Congenital Defects and Childhood Disorders.- Cranial and Spinal Dysraphisms.- Craniosynostosis.- Neurocutaneous Syndromes.- Hydrocephalus.- Neuromodulation: Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery.- Epilepsy.- Pain.- Functional Stereotactic Neurosurgery for Movement Disorders: Deep Brain Stimulation.- Functional Applications of Radiosurgery.- Image-Guided Neurosurgery.- Spasticity and Muscles: Basics for Understanding the Different Treatment Modalities.- Critical Neurosurgical Care.- Consciousness Impairment.- Intracranial Hypertension.- Water and Electrolyte Regulation.- Temperature Regulation.- Respiration.- Nutrition.- Multiresistant Infections in Neurointensive Care Patients.- Specific Aspects of Critical Care for Children.

Reviews

From the reviews: "Neurosurgery fills a niche as a consensus curriculum text suitable for medical students, residents, and physicians seeking a succinct, thoughtful, comprehensive, and logical reference. This well-illustrated paperback, a cross between a handbook and a comprehensive text, is a great value published by Springer as part of the European Manual of Medicine series. ... the general target for the book is students ... . The text also provides excellent coverage of a number of disciplines closely related to neurosurgery ... ." (Deborah L. Benzil, Journal of the American Medical Association, January, 2011) "The target readers would be mainly trainees neurosurgery residents, students, and specialized clinicians ... . It is written in a simple and comprehensive language with several headings and subheading in order to give the required information in a brief, condensed, comprehensive, and concise manner. ... it is a great book for practitioner as well as for trainees written in simple understandable language covering the basics to the most advance aspects of neurosurgery. It can be definitely recommended as a nearly complete guideline for neurosurgical trainees." (Raj Kumar, Child's Nervous System, Vol. 26, June, 2010)