Oxford Textbook of Neurological Surgery

List of contents

• Section 1: Principles of Neurological Surgery


• 1: Henry Marsh and Eleni Marts: The History of Neurosurgery


• 2: Peter Bodkin and Elizabeth Visser: Clinical Assessment


• 3: Tomasz Matys, Daniel. J. Scoffings, and Tilak Das: Overview of Neuroimaging


• 4: Neil Kitchen and Jonathan Shapey: Operating Theatre Environment


• 5: Derek Duane, Alessandro Scudellari, Karol P Budohoski, and Sylvia Karcheva: Perioperative Care of the Neurosurgical Patient


• Section 2: Tumours and Skull Base - Intrinsic Tumour


• 6: Hugues Duffau, Lorenzo Bello, and Thomas Santarius: Low Grade Glioma


• 7: Stephen Price, Harry Bulstrode, and Richard Mair: High Grade Gliomas and Molecular Biology of Neurosurgical Oncology


• 8: Andrew Brodbelt and Rashed Zakaria: Intracranial Metastasis


• 9: Boon Leong and Thangaraj Munusamy: Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma


• 10: Matthias Simon and Alexander Grote: Glioneuronal and other epilepsy-associated tumours


• 11: Susan Short: Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery for Brain Tumours


• 12: Nicholas Brown, Daniel Krell, and Paul Mulholland: Chemotherapy for Brain Tumours


• 13: Mitchel Berger and Shawn Hervey-Jumper: Surgical Techniques in the Management of Intrinsic Tumours


• Section 3: Tumours and Skull Base - Extra-axial and Skull Lesions


• 14: Michael McDermott, Thomas Santarius, Harjus Birk, Seunggu J. Han, and Ramez Kirollos: Meningiomas and Haemangiopericytoma


• 15: Ossama Al-Mefty and Rami O. Almefty: Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas of the skull base


• 16: Andrew McEvoy: Dermoid and Epidermoid Cysts


• 17: Fred Gentili, Lior Gonen, and Georgios Klironomos: Esthesioneuroblastoma


• 18: Benedict Panizza and Adel Helmy: Malignant Skull Base Tumours


• 19: Paul Gardner, Joseph D. Chabot, and S. Tonya Stefko: Surgical Management of Tumours of the Orbit


• 20: Ivan Tmofeev and Giorgio Gioffre: Skull Lesions


• 21: Michael Cusimano and Michael P. Meier: Surgical Management of Anterolateral Skull Base Lesions


• Section 4: Tumours and Skull Base - CP Angle


• 22: Tiit Mathiesen and Petter Förander: Schwannomas


• 23: Andrew King and Omar Pathmanaban: Glomus Tumours


• 24: Andrew Kaye, Nicholas Hall, and Yuval Sufaro: Surgical management of cerebellopontine angle and petrous lesions


• Section 5: Tumours and Skull Base - Sellar and Supra Sellar Tumours


• 25: Kanna Gnanalingham, Zsolt Zador, Tara Kearney, Federico Roncaroli, and H Rao Gattamaneni: Pituitary Tumours


• 26: Rudolf Fahlbusch, V. Gerganov, and H. Metwali: Craniopharyngioma and Rathke's Cleft cysts


• 27: William Couldwell and Jayson A. Neil: Surgical Management of Sellar and Suprasellar Tumours


• Section 6: Tumours and Skull Base - Posterior Fossa


• 28: James Rutka: Medulloblastoma


• 29: Christopher Chandler: Ependymoma


• 30: Donald McArthur and Ammar Natalwala: Haemangioblastoma


• 31: Jacques Morcos, Osaama Khan, and Ashish Shah: Surgical Approaches to Posterior Fossa Tumours


• Section 7: Tumours and Skull Base - Intraventricular


• 32: Paul Grundy and Vasileios Apostolopoulos: Intraventricular Tumours


• 33: Paul Chumas and Asim Sheikh: Colloid Cyst


• 34: Shlomi Constantini, Jonathan Roth, and Rina Dvir: Choroid Plexus tumours


• 35: Guilherme Ribas, Eduardo Ribas, and Ramez W Kirollos: Surgical Management of Intraventricular Lesions


• Section 8: Tumours and Skull Base - Pineal


• 36: Michael Jenkinson, Mueez Waqar, Samantha Mills, and Conor L Mallucci: Pineal Tumours


• 37: Nicolas de Tribolet, Christoph M Woernle, and René Bernays: Surgical management of pineal region lesions


• Section 9: Tumours and Skull Base - Tumour Syndromes


• 38: Timothy Jones, Fay Greenway, and Frances Elmslie: Neurophakomatoses


• 39: Thomas Santarius, Hani Marcus, and Yizhou Wan: Uncommon Brain Lesions


• Section 10: Neurotrauma and Intensive Care


• 40: Nabeel Alshafai and Andrew Maas: Epidemiology of head injury and outcome after head injury


• 41: Geoffrey Manley, John K. Yue, Hansen Deng, Ethan A. Winkler, John F. Burke, and Catherine Suen: Pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury


• 42: Martin Smith and Matthew A. Kirkman: Intensive Care Management of Head Injury


• 43: Randall Chesnut, Hadie Adams, Angelos Kolias, Peter Hutchinson, and Adel Helmy: Surgical Management of Head Injury


• 44: Antonio Belli, Fardad T. Afshari, and Peter C Whitfield: Complications of head injury


• 45: Mark Wilson: Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury


• Section 11: Vascular Neurosurgery


• 46: Diederik O. Bulters and Andrew Durnford: Normal Cerebrovascular Physiology and Vascular Anatomy


• 47: Neal Kassell, Giuseppe Lanzino, and Federico Cagnazzo: The Pathophysiology of Aneurysms


• 48: Jason McMillen: The Pathophysiology of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage


• 49: Michael Lawton and Roberto Rodriguez: Management of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage


• 50: Michael Morgan: Arteriovenous Malformation and Dural Arteriovenous Fistulae


• 51: Mohsen Javadpour, Kieron Sweeney, and A. O'Hare: Carotid Artery Disease and Cerebral Ischaemia


• 52: Peter Kirkpatrick and Mathew Guilfoyle: Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass for Cerebral Ischaemia


• 53: Mario Teo, Michael Lawton, and Omar Choudhri: Giant Aneurysms and Bypass Surgery


• 54: Andreas W. Unterberg and Berk Orakcioglu: Spontaneous Intracranial Haematoma


• 55: Hiren Patel and Janneke van Beijnum: Cavernoma and angiographically occult lesions


• Section 12: Spinal Surgery - Principles


• 56: Simon Thomson, Chris Derham, and Senthil Selvanathan: Surgical Principles in spinal surgery


• 57: Peter Loughenbury and Richard M Hall: Spinal stability


• 58: Sadaquate Khan, Kevin Tsang, and Lamia Nayeb: Spinal physiology


• 59: Chris McGuigan, Karen O'Connell, Eavan McGovern, and Iain McGurgan: Medical pathologies of the spinal cord


• Section 13: Spinal Surgery


• 60: Navin Furtado, Georgios Tsermoulas, and Adikarige Haritha Dulanka Silva: Cervical Spinal Disease


• 61: Ciaran Bolger, Kieron Sweeney, and Catherine Moran: Thoracic Spinal Disease


• 62: Matt Crocker and Chris Kellett: Lumbar Spinal Disease


• 63: John Brecknell and Quah Boon Leong: Spinal Tumours


• 64: Daniel Walsh: Vascular Lesions of the Spinal Cord


• 65: Graham Flint: Spinal cerebrospinal fluid dynamics


• 66: Peter Milner and Nigel Gummerson: Scoliosis and Spinal Deformity


• Section 14: Spinal Trauma


• 67: Edward Benzel, Bryan Lee, and Saksith Smithason: Managing Spinal Cord Trauma


• 68: Calan Mathieson, Chris Barrett, and Likhith Alakandy: Cervical Spine Injuries


• 69: Bedansh Roy Chaudhary: Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Injuries


• 70: Fahim Anwar, Wail Ahmed, Tamara Tajsic, Damiano G. Barone, and Harry Mee: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation


• Section 15: Peripheral Nerve Surgery


• 71: Alan Forster and Robert Morris: Elecrodiagnostics


• 72: Grainne Bourke: Entrapment Syndromes


• 73: Jonathan Perera and Marco Sinisi: Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injuries


• 74: Ricin Trivedi and Vincent Nga: Peripheral Nerve Tumours


• Section 16: Functional Neurosurgery


• 75: Alex Green, Tipu Aziz, and Erlick Pereira: Principles of Deep Brain Stimulation


• 76: Keyoumars Ashkan and Ismail Ughratdar: Movement Disorders


• 77: John Goodden, Catherine Hernon, and Brian Scott: Spasticity


• 78: Richard Mannion and Rokas Tamosauskas: Pain pathophysiology and surgical management


• 79: Marc Sindou and George Georgoulis: Cranial Nerve Vascular Compression Syndromes


• 80: Bart Nuttin, Loes Gabriels, and Chris Bervoets: Neurosurgical interventions for psychiatric disorders


• Section 17: Epilepsy


• 81: Richard Selway: Diagnosis and Assessment


• 82: Andrew McEvoy, Tim Wehner, and Victoria Wykes: Classification of Seizures and Epilepsy


• 83: Johannes Schramm: Surgical Management of Epilepsy


• Section 18: Paediatrics


• 84: Colin Ferrie and Daniel Warren: Developmental Disorders of the brain


• 85: Dominic Thompson: Spinal development and spinal dysraphism


• 86: Federico Di Rocco, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, and Eric Arnaud: Craniofaciosynostosis : syndromic and non-syndromic craniofacial anomalies


• 87: Andrew Kay, Desiderio Rodrigues, Melanie Sharp, and Guirish Solanki: Special Considerations in Paediatric Head and Spinal Trauma


• 88: Shlomi Constantini and Jonathan Roth: Paediatric Brain Tumours


• 89: Conor Malucci, Matt Bailey, and Chris Parks: Paediatric Hydrocephalus


• 90: Atul Tyagi, Helen McCullagh, Tony Goddard, and Tufail Patankar: Paediatric neurovascular disorders


• 91: Martin Tisdall and Sophia Varadkar: Paediatric Epilepsy


• Section 19: CSF Disorders


• 92: Harold Rekate and Alexander Gamble: Hydrocephalus and Normal CSF Dynamics


• 93: Ian K. Pople and William Singleton: Shunt Technology and Endoscopic Ventricular Surgery


• 94: Nicole Keong: Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus


• 95: John D. Pickard and Nicholas Higgins: Pseudotumour cerebri Syndrome


• 96: Stana Bojanic and Ruichong Ma: Arachnoid Cysts


• Section 20: Infection


• 97: Walter Hall: Microbiology


• 98: Eugene Yang, Thangaraj Munusamy, and Boon Hoe Tan: Cranial infections


• 99: Nicholas Haden and Edward White: Spinal infection

About the author

Ramez Kirollos is a Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Adel Helmy is a University Lecturer in Neurosurgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Simon Thomson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.

Peter Hutchinson is a Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Cambridge, UK.

Summary

The Oxford Textbook of Neurological Surgery is an up-to-date, objective and readable text that covers the full scope of neurosurgical practice. It acts as both a point of reference to provide a focussed refresher for the experienced neurosurgeon as well as a trusted training manual.

Product details

• Authors: Ramez (Consultant Neurosurgeon Kirollos
• Assisted by: Adel Helmy (Editor), Peter Hutchinson (Editor), Hutchinson Peter (Editor), Ramez Kirollos (Editor), Kirollos Ramez (Editor), Simon Thomson (Editor), Thomson Simon (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2019
• EAN: 9780198746706
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874670-6
• No. of pages: 1176
• Series: Oxford Textbooks in Surgery
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; neurosurgery, MEDICAL / Surgery / General