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…
Chapter 89 Embolization of Tumors Brain, Head, Neck, and Spine Yin C. Hu, C. Benjamin Newman, Cameron G. McDougall, Felipe C. Albuquerque Hypervascular neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS)…
Chapter 130 Dorsal Root Entry Zone Lesions Kevin Cahill, Allan J. Belzberg, William S. Anderson Ablation of the dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) of the spinal cord, also known as…
Chapter 164 Lumbar Spinal Arthroplasty Clinical Experiences of Motion Preservation Fred H. Geisler Lumbar spinal arthroplasty was first reported in clinical settings in 1994 by Griffith and colleagues.1 This early…
Chapter 112 Corpus Callosotomy Indications and Techniques Edward F. Chang, Nathan C. Rowland, Nicholas M. Barbaro In 1940, William P. van Wagenen and R. Yorke Herren described a small series…
Chapter 126 Deep Brain Stimulation for Pain Patrick Senatus, Daniel Condit Deep brain stimulation (DBS), or electric subcortical stimulation, illustrates functional neurosurgical intervention with stereotactic placement of electrodes into target…
