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This book offers a clinical and surgical overview on congenital brain malformations, which are abnormalities that occur during fetal development, leading to brain defects and disorders. The fetal brain begins to develop shortly after conception and continues to grow throughout pregnancy. This book covers the various congenital brain malformations, their aetiologies and development, diagnosis and management including possible surgical interventions and details of these procedures.
Since many of these disorders are rare, they do not have a final cure and their management is important - their consequences on the physical, psychological and developmental condition of the patient are great. This book is of interest to pediatric surgeons and neurologists.
List of contents
Chapter 1 General introduction to the congenial brain anomalies.- Chapter 2 The epidemiology of the congenital brain anomalies.- Chapter 3 The diagnosis of congenital brain anomalies.- Chapter 4 Anencephaly.- Chapter 5 Encephalocele.- Chapter 6 Chiari malformation.- Chapter 7 Porencephalies.- Chapter 8 Septo-optic dysplasia.- Chapter 9 Pituitary maldevelopment.- Chapter 10 Posterior fossa malformation.- Chapter 11 Microcephaly.- Chapter 12 Megalencephaly and Hemimegalencephaly.- Chapter 13 Neurocutaneous syndromes.- Chapter 14 Schizencephaly.- Chapter 15 Lissencephaly.- Chapter 16 Heterotopias.- Chapter 17 Polymicrogyria.- Chapter 18 Encephaloclastic Lesions of the Central Nervous System.- Chapter 19 Cerebral palsy.- Chapter 20 Congenital brain malformations in the Arab world.
About the author
Dr Khaled Fares Al-Ali, MD is one of the first Emirati neurosurgeons, and the first Emirati North American board-certified neurosurgeon. He specializes in pediatric neurosurgery and spine surgery. He has a busy clinical practice which includes management of pediatric and advanced spine conditions, such as advanced cervical spine conditions, minimally invasive spine surgery, degenerative spine conditions, spine decompression and fusion surgery, spinal cord tumors, brain tumors, all of the pediatric neurosurgery conditions. He also runs pituitary and peripheral nerve clinics. He is working in Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE and affiliated with Dalhousie University, Canada.
Dr Hashim Talib Hashim, MBChB is a researcher with has more than 100 papers to his name, many of them published in international PubMed indexed journals. He created the idea of "Postconscious" and "Gene's communication theory", and has participated in over 25 conferences and medical events both nationally and internationally to present his papers and research. He is a member of the international global health network that focuses on developing papers in global health related topics, has his own reserach laboratory in Iraq, and has published 4 books with Springer.
