CHAPTER 396 Endovascular Treatment of Spinal Vascular Malformations Yakov Gologorsky, Aman B. Patel Vascular lesions of the spinal axis have engendered many classification schemes in the past century.1 Although these…
CHAPTER 330 Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury Tuong H. Le, Alisa D. Gean Traumatic brain injury (TBI) refers to injury to the intracranial structures following physical trauma to the head….
CHAPTER 131 Meningiomas Ossama Al-Mefty, Saleem I. Abdulrauf, Georges F. Haddad Historical Background A meningioma is, in many ways, the soul of neurosurgery. The progress in meningioma treatment mirrors advances…
CHAPTER 397 Spinal Vascular Malformations Aaron S. Dumont, Edward H. Oldfield Patients with spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) may have an insidious, subacute, or acute onset of symptoms, depending on the…
CHAPTER 343 Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism and Cerebral Ischemia Caroline C. Tan, Vini G. Khurana, Eduardo E. Benarroch, Fredric B. Meyer This chapter presents a contemporary and integrative basic…
CHAPTER 378 Microsurgical Management of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms Nader Sanai, Michael T. Lawton Giant intracranial aneurysms have, by definition, a minimum diameter of at least 25 mm. Their dismal natural history…
CHAPTER 335 Surgical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury J. Chris Zacko, Leo Harris, M. Ross Bullock Approximately 1.5 million head injuries occur every year in the United States, with 250,000…
CHAPTER 66 Hemispheric Disconnection Procedures Johannes Schramm Definition Hemispheric disconnection procedures are a group of surgical interventions for chronic epilepsy that are used as alternatives to anatomic hemispherectomy. The common…
CHAPTER 169 Evidence Base for Destructive Procedures Justin S. Cetas, Ahmed Raslan, Kim J. Burchiel The surgical treatment of pain has been an integral part of neurosurgery since the early…
CHAPTER 116 Basic Principles of Skull Base Surgery Madjid Samii, Marcos Tatagiba, Venelin Gerganov Historical Landmarks Until the beginning of the 20th century, lesions located at the base of the…
