Description
A case-based guide to challenging clinical scenarios in neurosurgery covering the major sub-speciality areas of oncology, vascular neurosurgery, brain and spine trauma, paediatrics, spinal degenerative disease, peripheral and cranial nerves, functional neurosurgery and infection. Robin Bhatia is a Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon working in The Great Western Hospital and Oxford University Hospital. He started to write and edit this book when he was an ST7 neurosurgical trainee in the London Deanery. His clinical practice is now exclusively spinal surgery, but his doctorate research investigated traumatic brain injury. ; Ian Sabin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at St Barts and the Royal London NHS Trust and at The Wellington Hospital. He is Director of the London Gamma Knife Centre at St Barts Hospital and Neurosurgical Tutor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His clinical interests include Skull Base Surgery (Acoustic Neuromas, Pituitary Tumours, and Trigeminal Neuralgia), Neuro-Oncology, Cervical Spine Surgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. He also holds a research interest in endoscopic minimally invasive neurosurgery. 1 Nick Borg, Angelos G. Kolias, Thomas Santarius and Peter J. Hutchinson: The management of chronic subdural haematoma; 2 Mohammed Awad and Kevin O’Neill: Glioblastoma Multiforme; 3 Eoin Fenton and Ciaran Bolger: Spondylolisthesis; 4 Ruth-Mary deSouza and David Choi: Intramedullary spinal cord tumour; 5 Victoria Wykes, Anna Miserocchi and Andrew McEvoy: Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; 6 Martin M. Tisdall, Greg James and Dominic N. P. Thompson: Management of Lumbosacral Lipoma in Childhood; 7 David Sayer and Raghu Vindindlacheruvu: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension; 8 Robin Bhatia and Ian Sabin: Colloid cyst of the third ventricle; 9 Patrick Grover and Robert Bradford: Bilateral Vestibular Schwannomas: the challenge of Neurofibromatosis Type II; 10 Adel Helmy and Peter J. Hutchinson: Multimodality Monitoring In Severe Traumatic Brain Injury; 11 Ciaran Scott Hill and George Samandouras: Intracranial Abscess; 12 Jonathan A. Hyam, Alexander L. Green and Tipu Z. Aziz: Deep Brain Stimulation for Debilitating Parkinson’s Disease; 13 Alessandro Paluzzi and Paul Gardner: Endoscopic resection of a growth hormone-secreting pituitary macroadenoma; 14 Isaac Phang and Nigel Suttner: Trigeminal neuralgia; 15 Melissa C. Werndle and Henry Marsh: Cerebral metastasis; 16 Robin Bhatia and Adrian Casey: The surgical management of the rheumatoid spine; 17 Ellie Broughton and Nick Haden: Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy; 18 Harith Akram and Mary Murphy: Brainstem cavernous malformation; 19 Sophie J. Camp and Rolfe Birch: Peripheral Nerve Injury; 20 Peter Bodkin and Patrick Statham: Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage; 21 Deepti Bhargava and Michael D. Jenkinson: Low Grade Glioma; 22 Jinendra Ekanayake and Neil Kitchen: Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation
