Chapter 131 Motor Cortex Stimulation for Intractable Facial Pain Sameer A. Sheth, Matthew K. Mian, Bradley R. Buchbinder, Emad N. Eskandar Trigeminal neuropathic pain (TNP) is a syndrome of severe,…
Chapter 128 Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain Richard B. North, Bengt Linderoth A theory of pain transmission published in 1965 inspired researchers to develop a reversible, nondestructive pain therapy…
Chapter 111 Multilobar Resection and Hemispherectomy in Epilepsy Surgery∗ Massimo Cossu, Francesco Cardinale, Laura Castana, Giorgio Lo Russo Multilobar Resection The rationale of curative surgical procedures aiming at control of…
Chapter 96 Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Pablo F. Recinos, George I. Jallo, Violette Renard Recinos Neuroendoscopy and minimally invasive techniques have played an increasing role in contemporary neurosurgery. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy,…
Chapter 47 Transtemporal Approaches to Posterior Cranial Fossa Frank D. Vrionis, Kamran V. Aghayev, Gale Gardner, Jon H. Robertson, Jason A. Brodkey Traditional approaches to the posterior cranial fossa do…
Chapter 202 Management of Nerve Sheath Tumors Involving the Spine Faiz Ahmad, Allan Levi In 1887, Sir Victor Horsley performed the first successful surgical excision of a spinal intradural extramedullary…
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 69 Surgical Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Manish K. Aghi, Christopher S. Ogilvy, Bob S. Carter Epidemiology Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), or hemorrhage within the brain parenchyma, occurs with an incidence…
Chapter 99 Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia Pablo F. Recinos, Trang Nguyen, Michael Lim Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) has been defined as sudden, paroxysmal, recurring stabbing pains of one or more…
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…
