Neurosurgery category: 707 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
This book covers topical issues in neurovascular surgery, and in particular the management of intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and cavernomas, current trends in cerebral revascularization, and new concepts in cerebrovascular imaging. The contents reflect the continuing developments...
fMRI
Basics and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Functional MRI (fMRI) and the basic method of BOLD imaging were introduced in 1993 by Seiji Ogawa. From very basic experiments, fMRI has evolved into a clinical application for daily routine brain imaging. There have been various improvements in both the imaging technique as such as well as in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
A large number of neurological conditions result in abnormal movements of the body; these are often characterized by changes in coordination and altered speed of voluntary movement. Many obscure diseases, conditions and environmental insults can cause movement disorders but these are often overlooked....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book includes operative videos and teaches the reader how to perform all currently available minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) techniques. Each chapter covers a MISS procedure and includes an introduction, indications and contraindications, surgical technique, pitfalls and pearls, discussion,...
Brain Injury and Recovery
Theoretical and Controversial Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The idea for the present volume grew from discussions that the four of us had among ourselves and with our colleagues at recent scientific meetings. All of us were impressed by the wealth of empirical data that was being generated by investigators interested in brain damage and recovery from both...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Operative Techniques in Epilepsy Surgery is an essential guide to the latest techniques and therapeutic strategies for the surgical management of patients with epilepsy. Distinguished pioneers in the field provide comprehensive coverage of the range of operative approaches, helping clinicians to thoroughly...
Brain Edema XI
Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, June 6–10, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Brain edema is found in a wide variety of clinical disorders including stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage, subarachnoid haemorrhage, head injury, brain tumors and hydrocephalus. This volume brings together clinical and basic scientists from all over the world. Their expertise in the understanding of...
Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery
Preoperative Assessment and Surgical Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Written by internationally recognized authorities in pediatric epilepsy surgery, this cutting-edge book provides essential information about the preoperative assessment of and surgical approaches to the treatment of epilepsy in children. The book opens with an overview of pediatric epilepsy followed...
Clinical Functional MRI
Presurgical Functional Neuroimaging
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
The second, revised edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date description of the use of preoperative fMRI in patients with brain tumors and epilepsies. State of the art fMRI procedures are presented, with detailed consideration of practical aspects, imaging and data processing, normal...
by Michael Bruce Furman
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Give your patients the non-surgical pain relief they need with help from the Atlas of Image-Guided Spinal Procedures. This medical reference book features a highly visual format that shows you exactly how to perform each technique to get the best results.
Give your patients the pain relief...
Skull Traction and Cervical Cord Injury
A New Approach to Improved Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In this book on the optimal treatment of the injured spinal cord we present the reasons why we consider it necessary to handle trauma tized medullary tissue in accordance with the classical biological principles of wound healing in general, namely by long-term, ten sion-free immobilization of...
Atlas of Brain Tumors
Light- and Electron-Microscopic Features
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Despite recent technological innovations in neuroradiology, the ultimate diagnosis of brain tumors is still based on the histopathological findings from specimens taken during surgery. The material in this atlas represents approximately 700 brain tumor specimens collected mainly in the authors' own...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Moyamoya disease (MMD) was first reported as a new entity among vascular disorders in 1957. Named for the abnormal vascular networks found around the occluded distal internal carotid artery, it is the most common pediatric cerebrovascular disease in East Asia. In recent years large amounts of data...
Vascular Anatomy of the Spinal Cord
Radioanatomy as the Key to Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This book systematically describes the angioarchitecture of the spinal cord. Microradiographs of superficial and intrinsic arterial supply and venous drainage patterns provide the anatomical basis needed to understand spinal vascular disorders. These post mortem studies are supplemented by clinical...