In 3 volumes, not available separately

M. Sindou (ed.)
Practical Handbook of Neurosurgery
From Leading Neurosurgeons
Contents
Volume 1: Brain: Approaches, Vascular, Trauma,
Cerebrospinal Fluid, and Infections
Sindou M, Preface
Techniques, Cranial Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Yasargil MG, Microneurosurgery: principles, applications,
and training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
De Divitiis E, Endoscopy: principles and techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Lunsford LD, Image-guided radiosurgery using the Gamma
knife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Black PM, How to perform surgery for intracranial (convexity)
meningiomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Sindou M, The gdangerous h intracranial veins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Roux FX, How to perform subfronto-orbito-nasal approach
for anterior cranial base surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Al-Mefty O, How to perform cranio-orbital-zygomatic
approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Umansky F, How to perform middle fossa/sphenoid
wing approaches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Sekhar L, How to perform central skull base approaches . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Yonekawa Y, How to perform selective anterior clinoidectomy. . . . . . 155
Marchal JC, How to perform approaches of the orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Basso AJ, How to perform transsphenoidal approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Crockard A, How to perform transoral approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Mooij JJA, How to perform posterior fossa approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Kawase T, How to perform transpetrosal approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Vascular Lesions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Hernesniemi J, Principles of microneurosurgery
for safe and fast surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Raftopoulos C, Surgical management of intracranial aneurysms
of the anterior circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
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Lindsay KW, Intracranial aneurysms in the posterior circulation. . . . . 271
Kobayashi S, Giant aneurysms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Heros RC, Arteriovenous malformations of the brain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Bertalanffy H, Intracranial cavernomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Bene. V, Carotid endarterectomy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Yonekawa Y, Brain revascularization by extracranial-intracranial
arterial bypass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Pickard JD, Management of intracranial venous
pathologies . potential role of venous stenting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Cranial Traumas, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Infectious Diseases . . . . . . . 393
Teasdale G, The Glasgow coma and outcome scales: practical
questions and answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Hutchinson PJA, Cranial trauma in adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Trojanowski T, Hydrocephalus in adults (including normal
pressure hydrocephalus syndrome) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Schroeder HWS, Arachnoid cysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Lobato RD, Brain infections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Abdennebi B, Parasitoses of the central nervous system: hydatidosis . . . 469
Diaz-Vasquez PP, Parasitoses of the central nervous
system: cysticercosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Volume 2: Intracranial Tumors, Intraoperative
Explorations, Pediatrics
Intracranial Tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Westphal M, Classifi cation of brain tumors and corresponding
treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Thomas DGT, Stereotactic biopsies for tumors: indications,
limits, diagnosis with histopathology and other laboratory
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Laws ER, Management of (malignant) intracranial gliomas . . . . . . . . . 49
Loiseau H, Management of lymphomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Knosp E, Management of anterior fossa lesions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Delfi ni R, Management of tumors of middle fossa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Misra BK, Management of central skull base tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Fukushima T, Management of cavernous sinus lesions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Samaha E, Management of convexity meningiomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Sindou M, Meningiomas involving the major dural sinuses:
management of the sinus invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Kaye AH, Posterior fossa meningiomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Kassam AB, Endoscopic surgery for skull base meningiomas . . . . . . . 201
D fHaens J, Management of pituitary adenomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
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.te.o J, Craniopharyngiomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Lobo Antunes J, Management of tumors of the anterior third
and lateral ventricles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Decq P, Endoscopic management of colloid cysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
de Tribolet N, Management of pineal region tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Doczi TP, Epidermoid/dermoid cysts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Pamir MN, Tumors of the fourth ventricle and cerebellum in adults. . . . 319
Samii M, Vestibular schwannomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Bricolo A, Brainstem tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
George B, Management of foramen magnum tumours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Regis J, Radiosurgery for intracranial tumors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Intraoperative Explorations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Unsgard G, Ultrasound-guided neurosurgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
Hori T, Brain neuronavigation for deep-seated targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Tonn J-C, Brain mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Deletis V, Intra-operative neurophysiology (ION) in neurosurgery . . . 461
Pediatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Choux M, Specifi cities of, and changes in, pediatric neurosurgery. . . . 485
Ciurea AV, Cranial traumas in children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
Chazal J, Management of hydrocephalus in childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Akalan N, Intracranial tumors in childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
di Rocco C, Nonsyndromic craniosynostoses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Pierre-Kahn A, Management of lumbosacral lipomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Kalandu KKN, Management of encephaloceles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Delalande O, Epilepsy surgery in children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Volume 3: Spine, Functional, Peripheral nerves
Spine
Robert R, Management of spine traumas and spinal cord injury
Matge G, Approaches to cervical spine
Brunon J, Management of degenerative disease of the cervical spine
Msaddi AK, Management of lumbar disc herniations and degenerative
diseases of lumbar spine
Fessler R, Management of lumbar spondylolisthesis
Lapierre F, Non-traumatic extra-medullary spinal cord
compressions
Brotchi J, Intramedullary tumors
Grotenhuis JA, Chiari malformation
Klekamp J, Syringomyelia
El Khamlichi A, Infections in spine
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Functional Neurosurgery
Bosch DA, Stereotactic techniques
Ohye C, Selective thalamotomy
Velasco-Campos F, Targets for electrical stimulation in functional
neurosurgery
Benabid AL, Functional neurosurgery for Parkinson fs disease
Hariz MI, Functional neurosurgery for dystonias
Kanpolat Y, Neurosurgical management of cancer pain
Sindou M, Neurosurgery for neuropathic pain
Sindou M, Microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm
Sindou M, Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia
Burchiel KJ, Neurosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia
Mertens P, Neurosurgery for spasticity
Abbott R, Selective dorsal rhizotomy for the treatment
of spasticity in children
Lozano AM, State-of-the-art of surgical therapies for psychiatric
disorders: depression
Sturm V, Neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders:
obsessive-compulsive disorder
Devaux BC, Neurosurgical management of epilepsy in adults
Mauguiere F, Neurophysiology applied to neurosurgery: an oeprant
association in history and advances of neurosurgery
Nguyen JP, Neuronal transplantation: a review
Peripheral Nerves
Kline DG, Management of nerve injuries (with emphasis on nerve
action potential recordings)
Haase J, Tunnel compression syndromes of median
and ulnar nerves
Lapierre F, Tumours of the peripheral nerves
Education
de Sousa AA, Message from the chairman of the education
and training committee of the WFNS
Keravel Y, What do young neurosurgeons really need
Rosseau GL, The role of the World Federation of Neurosurgical
Societies in the development of world neurosurgery
Sindou M, Epilogue