Revised edition of: Schmidek & Sweet operative neurosurgical tecniques / [edited by] Henry H. Schmidek, David W. Roberts. 5th ed. c2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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