Chapter 36 Surgical Management of Sphenoid Wing Meningiomas Gerardo Guinto Sphenoid wing meningiomas (SWMs) constitute about 14% to 20% of intracranial meningiomas.1 Although they originate from arachnoid cells, they are…
Chapter 201 Management of Entrapment Neuropathies Marco Sinisi Nerve compression is a common cause of spontaneous neurologic dysfunction. The term “entrapment neuropathy” should only be used to describe situations in…
Chapter 193 Surgical Resection of Sacral Tumors Ziya L. Gokaslan, Wesley Hsu Tumors involving the sacral spine are rare lesions that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Symptoms may…
Chapter 146 Neurosurgical Management of HIV-Related Focal Brain Lesions Marlon S. Mathews, E. Thomas Chappell Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection causes a disease of the immune system known as acquired…
Chapter 103 Vestibular Schwannomas The Role of Stereotactic Radiosurgery Douglas Kondziolka, L. Dade Lunsford, Ajay Niranjan, Hideyuki Kano, John C. Flickinger Acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas) are generally slow-growing, intracranial extra-axial…
Chapter 195 Peripheral Nerve Injury Adam M. Sonabend, Patricia Smith, Jason H. Huang, Christopher Winfree Classification Much of our knowledge about peripheral nerve injuries and their effects came from World…
Chapter 46 Translabyrinthine Approach to Vestibular Schwannomas Lars Poulsgaard Vestibular schwannomas can be surgically accessed via a subtemporal, a translabyrinthine, or a suboccipital and retrosigmoid approach.1,2 The number of centers…
Chapter 4 Intraoperative Neurophysiology A Tool to Prevent and/or Document Intraoperative Injury to the Nervous System Vedran Deletis, Francesco Sala Over the past 25 years, intraoperative neurophysiology (ION) has established…
Chapter 165 Management of Degenerative Lumbar Stenosis and Spondylolisthesis Benjamin Blondel, Shaun Xavier, Thomas Errico Lumbar Spinal Stenosis The surgical management of lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis is critically…
Chapter 43 Surgical Management of Tumors of the Foramen Magnum Jose Alberto Landeiro, Roberto Leal Silveira, Cassius Vinícius Corrêa Dos Reis The foramen magnum (FM) comprises a bony channel formed…
