Moderate to Severe Brain Injury
CHAPTER 2 Moderate to Severe Brain Injury P. TYLER ROSKOS LAUREN R. SCHWARZ OVERVIEW The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines traumatic brain injury (TBI)…
Post–Acquired Brain Injury Epilepsy
CHAPTER 11 Post–Acquired Brain Injury Epilepsy ERIN PLUMLEY ROBERT J. KOTLOSKI BRUCE HERMANN OVERVIEW Epilepsy resulting from an acquired brain injury (ABI), that is acquired epilepsy, is…
Feigning Issues in Brain Injury
CHAPTER 17 Feigning Issues in Brain Injury DAVID T. R. BERRY BRITTANY D. WALLS CHELSEA M. BOUQUET ELIZABETH R. WALLACE OVERVIEW “Malingering” is defined by the Diagnostic…
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Overview
CHAPTER 1 Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Overview JAMES B. HOELZLE KATHRYN A. RITCHIE OVERVIEW Although historically considered a common and relatively benign injury, mild traumatic brain…
Surgical Management of Anterior Communicating and Anterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysms
Chapter 74 Surgical Management of Anterior Communicating and Anterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysms Michael T. Lawton, Zaman Mirzadeh The anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysm is the most common aneurysm encountered in…
Management of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
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…
Temporal Lobe Operations in Intractable Epilepsy
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…
Management of Degenerative Scoliosis
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…
Management of Traumatic Intracranial Aneurysms
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…
Neurologic Problems of the Spine in Achondroplasia
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,…
