Invasion in Malignant Glioma
CHAPTER 103 Invasion in Malignant Glioma Ian Lee, Mark L. Rosenblum There is little question that the infiltrative behavior of malignant gliomas in the brain is one of the primary…
Subthalamotomy in Parkinson’s Disease
CHAPTER 81 Subthalamotomy in Parkinson’s Disease Indications and Outcome Jorge Guridi, Lázaro Alvarez, Raul Macías, José A. Obeso The subthalamic nucleus (STN) is currently the target of choice for the…
Surgical Management of Tremor
CHAPTER 78 Surgical Management of Tremor Kazutaka Kobayashi, Jong Hyun Kim, William S. Anderson, Frederick A. Lenz This chapter briefly outlines the treatment of tremor by stereotactic neurosurgical techniques. Both…
Genetics of Craniosynostosis
CHAPTER 181 Genetics of Craniosynostosis Dan Drzymalski, Mark Proctor Craniosynostosis, or the premature fusion of calvarial sutures, occurs in approximately 1 in 2500 live births1 and has traditionally been classified…
Tailored Resections for Epilepsy
CHAPTER 64 Tailored Resections for Epilepsy David W. Roberts Although the first operations performed for the treatment of medically intractable epilepsy were obviously directed by the specific findings in individual…
Brain Abscess
CHAPTER 43 Brain Abscess Allan R. Tunkel, W. Michael Scheld Brain abscess is defined as a focal intracranial infection that is initiated as an area of cerebritis and evolves into…
Neurosurgical Management of Intractable Pain
CHAPTER 164 Neurosurgical Management of Intractable Pain Kenneth A. Follett, Richard B. North Neurosurgeons have a long history of accomplishments in the field of pain management, and neurosurgery, as a…
Surgery for Tourette’s Syndrome
CHAPTER 87 Surgery for Tourette’s Syndrome Robert J. Maciunas, Brian N. Maddux Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is a disorder in which individuals randomly but repeatedly exhibit stereotyped behavior (tics) of any…
Evidence-Based Approach to the Treatment of Facial Pain
CHAPTER 159 Evidence-Based Approach to the Treatment of Facial Pain Turo Nurmikko It does not require a thorough review of the history of surgery to note how the evolution of…
