Management of Shunt Infections
Chapter 97 Management of Shunt Infections Claudio Yampolsky, Pablo Ajler Hydrocephalus is one of the most common conditions in neurosurgical practice. Hydrocephalus prevalence in childhood ranges from 0.5 to 1…
Multimodal Treatment of Orbital Tumors
Chapter 50 Multimodal Treatment of Orbital Tumors Shaan M. Raza, Alfredo QuiÑones-Hinojosa, Prem S. Subramanian The surgical management of intraorbital tumors requires a thorough understanding of not only orbital anatomy…
Endovascular Treatment of Extracranial Occlusive Disease
Chapter 88 Endovascular Treatment of Extracranial Occlusive Disease Henry Moyle, Aman Patel Stroke is currently the third leading cause of death in the United States.1 Carotid occlusive disease is the…
Management of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
Chapter 68 Management of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms Vikram V. Nayar, K.a.i. Frerichs, Arthur L. Day Subarachnoid hemorrhage, when caused by the rupture of an intracranial aneurysm, has a mortality rate…
Management of Dissections of the Carotid and Vertebral Arteries
Chapter 67 Management of Dissections of the Carotid and Vertebral Arteries Gregory J. Velat, Brian L. Hoh, Christopher S. Ogilvy Arterial dissection is an important cause of stroke. The symptomatology,…
Primary progressive aphasia
Figure 5.1 Axial T2-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) scans of a 56-year-old patient affected by nfvPPA, showing an enlargement of the left lateral ventricle and the frontal subarachnoid spaces bilaterally,…
Overview of frontotemporal dementia and its relationship to other neurodegenerative disorders
Figure 2.1 Final pathologies, first syndrome, and subsequent evolution through second and third syndromes in patients from our center presenting initially with bvFTD. Aphasia developing secondarily is indicated as progressive…
Overview of frontotemporal dementia and the variety of its clinical presentations
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 3 Overview of frontotemporal dementia and the variety of its clinical presentations Matthew Jones and David Neary Hodges’ Frontotemporal Dementia, Second Edition, ed. Bradford C….
Historical introduction to FTD
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 1 Historical introduction to FTD John R. Hodges Hodges’ Frontotemporal Dementia, Second Edition, ed. Bradford C. Dickerson. Published by Cambridge University Press. © Cambridge University…
Artifact and Ambulatory EEG
CHAPTER 4 ARTIFACT AND AMBULATORY EEG WILLIAM O. TATUM, IV, DO INTRODUCTION Ambulatory EEG (aEEG) is an important diagnostic tool for patients with epilepsy and is well suited for assessing…
