Chapter 138 Management of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks Kofi Boahene, Teodoro Forcht Dagi, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistula is a serious and potentially fatal condition whose successful management requires a…
Chapter 109 Temporal Lobe Operations in Intractable Epilepsy Sameer A. Sheth, Matthew K. Mian, Emad N. Eskandar, G. Rees Cosgrove Epilepsy afflicts 0.5% to 1% of the world’s population and…
Chapter 185 Management of Degenerative Scoliosis Daniel M. Sciubba Scoliosis refers to an abnormal curvature of the spine and is classically defined radiographically as a coronal curve greater than 10…
Chapter 141 Management of Traumatic Intracranial Aneurysms Giuseppe Talamonti, Giuseppe D’Aliberti, Massimo Collice∗ The injury of intracranial arterial wall may result in immediate hemorrhage, thrombosis, dissection, or development of traumatic…
Chapter 184 Neurologic Problems of the Spine in Achondroplasia Benjamin S. Carson, Mari Groves, Reza Yassari Achondroplasia is characterized by disproportionately short stature with rhizomelic shortening of the extremities, macrocephaly,…
Chapter 51 Surgical Approaches to the Orbit U.T.A. Schick, Andreas Unterberg The surgical treatment of orbital processes presents a border area between different surgical specialties, including otorhinolaryngology, oral/maxillofacial surgery, ophthalmology,…
Chapter 187 Intradural Extramedullary Tumors Paul McCormick Introduction Tumors arising from the intradural extramedullary spinal canal reflect a wide variety of histopathologies. With few exceptions, however, these tumors are histologically…
Chapter 170 Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion Indications and Techniques Basheal M. Agrawal, Daniel Resnick Lumbar fusion is an accepted treatment for spinal deformity, iatrogenic instability following decompressive procedures, and more…
Chapter 93 Imaging Evaluation and Endovascular Treatment of Vasospasm James Chen, Sudhir Kathuria, Dheeraj Gandhi The phenomenon of cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) was first described in the…
Chapter 37 Spheno-Orbital Meningioma John R. Floyd, Franco DeMonte The original description of sphenoid ridge meningiomas by Cushing and Eisenhardt in 1938 defines a global type, which grows outward into…
