(1) Neurosurgical Department, Friederiken-Hospital, Hannover, Germany 7.1 Technical Implications The surgical treatment of focal entrapments predominantly consists of nerve relief and decompression. Entrapment syndromes are lesions in anatomically narrowed…
(1) Neurosurgical Department, Friederiken-Hospital, Hannover, Germany 3.1 Degrees of Nerve Lesion The following chapter mainly considers trauma-related peripheral nerve lesions. It is of low importance in explaining nerve irritation…
(1) Neurosurgical Department, Friederiken-Hospital, Hannover, Germany Revolutionary novelties were discovered during the 1960s when microsurgery was introduced in the large field of nerve traumatology and nerve repair. Inducing significantly…
(1) Neurosurgical Department, Friederiken-Hospital, Hannover, Germany For about 20 years, observations and reports have appeared about exceptional cases of suddenly rotated nerve segments [1]. The etiology of this phenomenon…
(1) Neurosurgical Department, Friederiken-Hospital, Hannover, Germany 4.1 Diagnosis, Assessment, and Completion Each focal neuropathy first needs a careful exploration of the patient’s history and evaluation of his clinical symptoms….
Adults Pediatric (<18 years) TIA 55 % TIA 38 % Stroke 59 % Stroke 40 % Hemorrhage 16 % Hemorrhage 6 % Seizure 14 % Seizure 11 % Headache 49…
Figure 9.1 In these side (a) and front (b) views of an artist’s impression of a brain AVM, note the abnormal tangle of vessels, nidus, with feeding arterial vessels and…
Figure 8.1 (a) This image depicts a gross, intra-operative view of a cerebral aneurysm in the center of the picture. At the sides of the aneurysms (red color) is the…
Figure 1.1 (a) Diffuse astrocytoma demonstrating increased cellularity and disruption of the normal orderly pattern of cells. WHO grade II astrocytomas lack the endothelial proliferation and necrosis seen in malignant…
Figure 17.1 MRI scan showing intramedullary spinal cord tumor (blue arrows) on side view (sagittal, left image) and top view (axial, right image) of spine Intradural Extramedullary Tumors Tumors in…
