Chapter 17 Medical Management of Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Tumors Nestoras Mathioudakis, Roberto Salvatori The majority of pituitary tumors are hormone-secreting.1 With the exception of prolactinomas, surgery has historically been the mainstay…
Chapter 49 Hearing Prosthetics Surgical Techniques Wade W. Chien, Howard Francis, John K. Niparko Tumors in the cerebellopontine angle and internal auditory canal can result in hearing loss. In addition,…
Chapter 192 Surgery for Metastatic Spine Disease Daniel M. Sciubba, Ziya L. Gokaslan Roughly 500,000 deaths occur per year from complications of metastatic disease. It is estimated that among living…
Chapter 45 Suboccipital Retrosigmoid Surgical Approach for Vestibular Schwannoma (Acoustic Neuroma) Robert L. Martuza For the surgery of vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma), refinements of microsurgical techniques, combined with improvements in…
Chapter 21 Endocrinologically Silent Pituitary Tumors Paolo Cappabianca, Felice Esposito, Luigi M. Cavallo, Annamaria Colao Epidemiology and Nomenclature Accounting for approximately 15% to 20% of all intracranial neoplasms and being…
Chapter 29 Endoscopic Approach to Intraventricular Brain Tumors Jeffrey P. Greenfield, Mark M. Souweidane, Theodore H. Schwartz Endoscopic surgery for intraventricular brain tumors is a logical application of endoscopic technology….
Chapter 58 Surgical Decision-Making and Treatment Options for Chiari Malformations in Children Todd C. Hankinson, R. Shane Tubbs, W. Jerry Oakes Significant herniation of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen…
Chapter 143 Management of Suppurative Intracranial Infections Rachel Grossman, Henry H. Schmidek, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa Pathogenesis Pyogenic brain abscess is a focal collection of pus within the brain. This condition has…
Chapter 119 Deep Brain Stimulation for Intractable Psychiatric Illness Paul S. Larson, Philip A. Starr Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become the gold standard for the surgical treatment of movement…
Chapter 118 Cingulotomy for Intractable Psychiatric Illness Patrick Schweder, G. Rees Cosgrove The modern management of most psychiatric disease involves a combination of psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). However,…
