Neurosurgery Case Review : Questions and Answers
An ideal resource for board exam preparation, this review distills the essentials of neurosurgery in a user-friendly question and answer format. Divided into three main sections, this text presents a comprehensive collection of cases covering intracranial pathology, spinal and peripheral nerve pathology, and neurology. Each chapter opens by detailing the clinical presentation of a problem frequently encountered in everyday practice followed by a list of questions and answers designed to test the reader's knowledge of diagnostic techniques, imaging, surgical indications, treatment options, po
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9781604062175, 1604062177
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Neurosurgery Case Review: Questions and Answers; Title Page ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Reviewers; Section I Intracranial Pathology; Case 1 Vestibular Schwannoma in Neurofibromatosis Type 2; Case 2 Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma; Case 3 Sturge-Weber Syndrome; Case 4 Von Hippel-Lindau Disease-Hemangioblastoma; Case 5 Parasagittal Meningioma; Case 6 Olfactory Groove Meningioma; Case 7 Sphenoid Wing Meningioma; Case 8 Hemangiopericytoma; Case 9 Clinoidal Meningioma; Case 10 Velum Interpositum Meningioma; Case 11 Pituitary Apoplexy. Case 12 Pituitary AdenomaCase 13 Craniopharyngioma: Endoscopic Approach; Case 14 High-grade Glioma: Surgical Treatment; Case 15 High-grade Glioma; Case 16 Eloquent Cortex Low-grade Glioma; Case 17 Single Brain Metastasis; Case 18 Multiple Brain Metastases; Case 19 Meningeal Carcinomatosis; Case 20 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma; Case 21 Posterior Fossa Tumor; Case 22 Fibrous Dysplasia of the Skull; Case 23 Orbital Tumor; Case 24 Multiple Ring-enhancing Cerebral Lesions; Case 25 Paraganglioma; Case 26 Colloid Cyst of the Third Ventricle; Case 27 Dural Arteriovenous Fistula. Case 28 Cerebral Arteriovenous MalformationCase 29 Cavernous Angioma; Case 30 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Vasospasm; Case 31 Unruptured Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm; Case 32 Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm; Case 33 Familial Cerebral Aneurysms; Case 34 Blister Carotid Aneurysm; Case 35 Concomitant Arteriovenous Malformation and Aneurysm; Case 36 Middle Cerebral Artery Aneurysm; Case 37 Hypertensive Putaminal Hematoma; Case 38 Intraventricular Hemorrhage; Case 39 Cerebellar Hemorrhage; Case 40 Moyamoya Disease; Case 41 Amaurosis Fugax with Carotid Occlusion. Case 42 In Tandem Extracranial and Intracranial Carotid StenosisCase 43 Vertebral Artery Stenosis with Ischemia; Case 44 High-grade Carotid Stenosis and Intracranial Aneurysm; Case 45 Chronic Subdural Hematoma; Case 46 Mild Head Injury; Case 47 Epidural Hematoma; Case 48 Traumatic Acute Subdural Hematoma; Case 49 New Trends in Neurotrauma Monitoring; Case 50 Intracranial Pressure Management; Case 51 Gunshot Wound to the Head; Case 52 Other Penetrating Intracranial Trauma; Case 53 Aqueductal Stenosis; Case 54 Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Infections; Case 55 Slit Ventricle Syndrome. Case 56 Mega-hydrocephalusCase 57 Cerebellar Medulloblastoma; Case 58 Brainstem Glioma 1: Pons; Case 59 Brainstem Glioma 2: Medulla Oblongata; Case 60 Pineal Region Tumor; Case 61 Endoscopic Treatment of Hydrocephalus; Case 62 Neurofibromatosis Type 1; Case 63 Epidermoid of the Sella; Case 64 Frontal Abscess with Sinus Involvement; Case 65 Hypothalamic Hamartoma; Case 66 Vein of Galen Malformation; Case 67 Pediatric Head Trauma; Case 68 Scaphocephaly; Case 69 Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fistula; Case 70 Cerebral Palsy and Selective Dorsal Rhizotomies; Case 71 Neural Tube Defect
Case 72 Tic Douloureux