Chapter 167 Percutaneous Placement of Lumbar Pedicle Screws Indications and Techniques Daniel C. Lu, Kevin T. Foley Introduction The use of pedicle screws for spinal stabilization has become increasingly popular…
Chapter 100 CyberKnife Radiosurgery for Spinal Neoplasms Robert E. Lieberson, Ake Hansasuta, Robert Dodd, Steven D. Chang, John R. Adler, Jr. The successes of cranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) inspired the…
Chapter 145 Spinal Infections Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Spinal Epidural Abscess Sunil Jeswani, Doniel Drazin, Ali Shirzadi, Paula Eboli, Debraj Mukherjee, Frank L. Acosta Introduction The surgeon is frequently called upon…
Chapter 62 Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Jotham Manwaring, P. David Adelson Traumatic brain injury (TBI) still remains a leading cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality among the…
Chapter 131 Motor Cortex Stimulation for Intractable Facial Pain Sameer A. Sheth, Matthew K. Mian, Bradley R. Buchbinder, Emad N. Eskandar Trigeminal neuropathic pain (TNP) is a syndrome of severe,…
Chapter 128 Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain Richard B. North, Bengt Linderoth A theory of pain transmission published in 1965 inspired researchers to develop a reversible, nondestructive pain therapy…
Chapter 111 Multilobar Resection and Hemispherectomy in Epilepsy Surgery∗ Massimo Cossu, Francesco Cardinale, Laura Castana, Giorgio Lo Russo Multilobar Resection The rationale of curative surgical procedures aiming at control of…
Chapter 96 Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Pablo F. Recinos, George I. Jallo, Violette Renard Recinos Neuroendoscopy and minimally invasive techniques have played an increasing role in contemporary neurosurgery. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy,…
Chapter 47 Transtemporal Approaches to Posterior Cranial Fossa Frank D. Vrionis, Kamran V. Aghayev, Gale Gardner, Jon H. Robertson, Jason A. Brodkey Traditional approaches to the posterior cranial fossa do…
Chapter 202 Management of Nerve Sheath Tumors Involving the Spine Faiz Ahmad, Allan Levi In 1887, Sir Victor Horsley performed the first successful surgical excision of a spinal intradural extramedullary…
