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Schmidek & Sweet operative neurosurgical techniques : indications, methods, and results.

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Wherever, whenever, or however you need it, unmatched procedural guidance is at your fingertips with the new edition of Schmidek & Sweet: Operative Neurosurgical Techniques! Completely revised under the auspices of new editor-chief Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, this comprehensive medical refere...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier/Saunders, ©2012.
Edition:Sixth Edition /
Series:ClinicalKey.
Subjects:
Nervous system > Surgery.
Neurosurgical Procedures > methods
Brain Neoplasms > surgery
Craniocerebral Trauma > surgery
Nervous System Diseases > surgery
Neurochirurgie.
MEDICAL > Surgery > Neurosurgery.
Nervous system > Surgery
Electronic books.
Internet Resources.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • V. 1:
  • Ensuring Patient Safety in Surgery-First Do No Harm
  • Surgical Navigation with Intraoperative Imaging: Special Operating Room Concepts
  • Functional Tractography, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Intraoperative Integration of Modalities, and Neuronavigation
  • Intraoperative Neurophysiology: A Tool to Prevent and/or Document Intraoperative Injury to the Nervous System
  • Gamma Knife Surgery for Cerebral Vascular Malformations and Tumors
  • Cortical and Subcortical Brain Mapping
  • Chemotherapy for Brain Tumors
  • Current Surgical Management of High-Grade Gliomas
  • Surgical Management of Low-Grade Gliomas
  • Management of Recurrent Gliomas
  • Tumors in Eloquent Areas of Brain
  • Management of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas
  • Surgical Management of Brain Stem Tumors in Adults
  • Cerebellar Tumors in Adults
  • Surgical Management of Cerebral Metastases
  • Multimodal Assessment of Pituitary and Parasellar Lesions
  • Medical Management of Hormone-Secreting Pituitary Tumors
  • Growth Hormone-Secreting Tumors
  • Prolactinomas
  • Cushing's Disease
  • Endocrinologically Silent Pituitary Tumors
  • Endoscopic Endonasal Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery
  • Transcranial Surgery for Pituitary Macroadenomas
  • Craniopharyngiomas
  • Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Craniopharyngiomas
  • Arachnoid, Suprasellar, and Rathke's Cleft Cysts
  • Surgical Approaches to Lateral and Third Ventricular Tumors
  • Transcallosal Surgery of Lesions Affecting the Third Ventricle: Basic Principles
  • Endoscopic Approach to Intraventricular Brain Tumors
  • Management of Pineal Region Tumors
  • Management of Tumors of the Fourth Ventricle
  • Surgical Management of Parasagittal and Convexity Meningiomas
  • Surgical Approach to Falcine Meningiomas
  • Surgical Management of Midline Anterior Skull Base Meningiomas
  • Supraorbital Approach Variants for Intracranial Tumors
  • Surgical Management of Sphenoid Wing Meningiomas
  • Spheno-Orbital Meningioma
  • Tumors Involving the Cavernous Sinus
  • Surgery for Trigeminal Neurinomas
  • Surgical Management of Petroclival Meningiomas
  • Surgical Management of Lesions of the Clivus
  • Surgical Management of Posterior Fossa Meningiomas
  • Surgical Management of Tumors of the Foramen Magnum
  • Surgical Management of Tumors of the Jugular Foramen
  • Suboccipital Retrosigmoid Surgical Approach for Vestibular Schwannoma (Acoustic Neuroma)
  • Translabyrinthine Approach to Vestibular Schwannomas
  • Transtemporal Approaches to Posterior Cranial Fossa
  • Surgical Management of Neurofibromatosis Types 1 and 2
  • Hearing Prosthetics: Surgical Techniques
  • Multimodal Treatment of Orbital Tumors
  • Surgical Approaches to the Orbit
  • Anterior Midline Approaches to the Skull Base
  • Orbitozygomatic Infratemporal Approach to Parasellar Meningiomas
  • Methods for Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion in Pediatric Hydrocephalus: From Shunt to Scope
  • Posterior Fossa Tumors in the Pediatric Population: Multidisciplinary Management
  • Supratentorial Tumors in the Pediatric Population: Multidisciplinary Management
  • Mapping, Disconnection, and Resective Surgery in Pediatric Epilepsy
  • Surgical Decision-Making and Treatment Options for Chiari Malformations in Children
  • Fetal Surgery for Open Neural Tube Defects
  • Surgical Management of Spinal Dysraphism
  • Revascularization Techniques in Pediatric Cerebrovascular Disorders
  • Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
  • Contemporary Dorsal Rhizotomy Surgery for the Treatment of Spasticity in Childhood
  • Instrumentation and Stabilization of the Pediatric Spine: Technical Nuances and Age-Specific Considerations
  • Methods of Cranial Vault Reconstruction for Craniosynostosis
  • Surgical Management of Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease
  • Management of Dissections of the Carotid and Vertebral Arteries
  • Management of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
  • Surgical Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
  • Surgical Management of Cerebellar Stroke-Hemorrhage and Infarction
  • Surgical Treatment of Moyamoya Disease in Adults
  • Surgical Treatment of Paraclinoid Aneurysms
  • Surgical Management of Posterior Communicating, Anterior Choroidal, Carotid Bifurcation Aneurysms
  • Surgical Management of Anterior Communicating and Anterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysms
  • Surgical Management of Aneurysms of the Middle Cerebral Artery
  • Surgical Management of Terminal Basilar and Posterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysms
  • Surgical Management of Midbasilar and Lower Basilar Aneurysms
  • Surgical Management of Aneurysms of the Vertebral and Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Complex
  • Far Lateral Approach and Transcondylar and Supracondylar Extensions for Aneurysms of the Vertebrobasilar Junction
  • Surgical Management of Cranial Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas
  • Surgical Management of Cavernous Malformations of the Nervous System
  • Surgical Management of Infratentorial Arteriovenous Malformations
  • Surgical Management of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
  • Endovascular Management of Intracranial Aneurysms
  • Endovascular Treatment of Stroke
  • Endovascular Treatment of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
  • Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Occlusive Disease
  • Endovascular Treatment of Extracranial Occlusive Disease
  • Embolization of Tumors: Brain, Head, Neck, and Spine
  • Endovascular Management of Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas
  • Endovascular Management of Spinal Vascular Malformations
  • Endovascular Treatment of Head and Neck Bleeding
  • Imaging Evaluation and Endovascular Treatment of Vasospasm
  • Surgical Management of Hydrocephalus in the Adult
  • Adult Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome
  • Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy
  • Management of Shunt Infections
  • Interstitial and LINAC-Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • CyberKnife Radiosurgery for Spinal Neoplasms
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Pituitary Adenomas
  • Radiation Therapy and Radiosurgery in the Management of Craniopharyngiomas
  • Vestibular Schwannomas: The Role of Stereotactic Radiosurgery
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery Meningiomas
  • Role of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in the Management of Arteriovenous Malformations
  • Radiation Therapy of Epilepsy
  • Gamma Surgery for Functional Disorders.
  • V. 2:
  • Presurgical Evaluation for Epilepsy Including Intracranial Electrodes
  • Temporal Lobe Operations in Intractable Epilepsy
  • Surgical Management of Extratemporal Lobe Epilepsy
  • Multilobar Resection and Hemispherectomy in Epilepsy Surgery
  • Corpus Callosotomy: Indications and Techniques
  • Treatment of Intractable Epilepsy by Electrical Stimulation of the Vagus Nerve
  • Deep Brain Stimulation in Movement Disorders: Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia
  • Cervical Dystonia and Spasmodic Torticollis: Indications and Techniques
  • Novel Targets in Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders
  • Molecular Therapies for Movement Disorders
  • Cingulotomy for Intractable Psychiatric Illness
  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Intractable Psychiatric Illness
  • Brain-Computer Interfacing Prospects and Technical Aspects
  • Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy for Hyperhidrosis
  • Surgery for Intractable Spasticity
  • Retrogasserian Glycerol Rhizolysis in Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • Percutaneous Stereotactic Rhizotomy in the Treatment of Intractable Facial Pain
  • Neurovascular Decompression in Cranial Nerves V, VII, IX, and X
  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Pain
  • Mesencephalic Tractotomy and Anterolateral Cordotomy for Intractable Pain
  • Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain
  • Spinal Cord Stimulation and Intraspinal Infusions for Pain
  • Dorsal Root Entry Zone Lesions
  • Motor Cortex Stimulation for Intractable Facial Pain
  • Perioperative Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults
  • Surgical Management of Severe Closed Head Injury in Adults
  • Management of Penetrating and Blast Injuries of the Nervous System
  • Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Management of Skull Base Trauma
  • Surgical Management of Chronic Subdural Hematoma in Adults
  • Management of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
  • Principles of Scalp Surgery and Surgical Management of Major Defects of Scalp
  • Surgical Management of Major Skull Defects and Potential Complications
  • Management of Traumatic Intracranial Aneurysms
  • Management of Penetrating Brain Injury
  • Management of Suppurative Intracranial Infections
  • Management of Infections After Craniotomy
  • Spinal Infections: Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Spinal Epidural Abscess
  • Neurosurgical Management of HIV-Related Focal Brain Lesions
  • Management of Neurocysticercosis
  • Management of Tuberculous Infections of the Nervous System
  • Fungal Infections of the Central Nervous System
  • Management of Intracranial Aneurysms Caused by Infection
  • Treatment Evolution in Management of Cervical Disc Disease
  • Anterior Cervical Foraminotomy (Jho Procedure): Microscopic or Endoscopic
  • Minimally Invasive Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy and Microdiscectomy
  • Disc Replacement Technologies in the Cervical and Lumbar Spine
  • Anterior Approaches for Multilevel Cervical Spondylosis.
  • Management of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
  • Cervical Laminoplasty: Indications and Techniques
  • Circumferential Cervical Spinal Fusion
  • Surgical Techniques in the Management of Thoracic Disc Herniations
  • Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Discectomy: Indications and Techniques
  • Lumbar Microdiscectomy: Indications and Techniques
  • Lumbar Microdiscectomy: Indications and Techniques
  • Minimally Invasive Lumbar Microdiscectomy: Indications and Techniques
  • Management of Far Lateral Lumbar Disc Herniations
  • Lumbar Spinal Arthroplasty: Clinical Experiences of Motion Preservation
  • Management of Degenerative Lumbar Stenosis and Spondylolisthesis
  • Posterior Lumbar Fusion by Open Technique: Indications and Techniques
  • Percutaneous Placement of Lumbar Pedicle Screws: Indications and Techniques
  • Dynamic Stabilization of the Lumbar Spine: Indications and Techniques
  • Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion
  • Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Indications and Techniques
  • Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Indications and Techniques
  • Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Indications and Techniques
  • Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty: Indications and Techniques
  • Management of Injuries of the Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord
  • Transoral Approaches to the Cervical Spine
  • Atlantoaxial Instability and Stabilization
  • Stabilization of the Subaxial Cervical Spine (C3-C7)
  • Thoracolumbar Anterolateral and Posterior Stabilization
  • Management of Sacral Fractures
  • Management of Penetrating Injuries to the Spine
  • Craniovertebral Abnormalities and Their Neurosurgical Management
  • Management of Chiari Malformations and Syringomyelia
  • Management of Occult Spinal Dysraphism in Adults
  • Neurologic Problems of the Spine in Achondroplasia
  • Management of Degenerative Scoliosis
  • Surgical Management of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors in Adults
  • Intradural Extramedullary Tumors
  • Management of Spinal Cord Tumors and Arteriovenous Malformations
  • Management of Cauda Equina Tumors
  • Management of Primary Malignant Tumors of the Osseous Spine
  • Surgical Approaches to the Cervicothoracic Junction
  • Surgery for Metastatic Spine Disease
  • Surgical Resection of Sacral Tumors
  • Surgical Management of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage after Spinal Surgery
  • Peripheral Nerve Injury
  • Imaging for Peripheral Nerve Disorders
  • Management of Adult Brachial Plexus Injuries
  • Nerve Transfers: Indications and Techniques
  • Management of Median Nerve Compression
  • Management of Ulnar Nerve Compression
  • Management of Entrapment Neuropathies
  • Management of Nerve Sheath Tumors Involving the Spine
  • Peripheral Nerve Tumors of the Extremities
  • Management of Cranial Nerve Injuries
  • Management of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
  • Nerve-Grafting Procedures for Birth-Related Peripheral Nerve Injuries.