Handbook of Neurosurgery

In addition to updated coverage of the key clinical issues in neurosurgery, this new edition incorporates practice parameters derived from evidence-based medicine, including the management of cervical trauma and current guidelines for lumbar fusion derived from those recently established by the Joint Section of Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS and the CNS.

• Fundamentals of neurocritical care, with a complete overview of conditions
• Detailed coverage of critical topics in neurosurgery, everything from general care considerations, to how to manage infection, pain, tumors, head trauma, and spine injuries
• Concise organization with hundreds of clinical applications, complete with etiology, treatment, and information for patients

• Expanded four-color graphics and illustrations
• New sections on postoperative headache, ankylosing spondylitis, spontaneous intracranial hypotension, sacral fractures, Modic classification of vertebral body degenerative changes, and more
• Updates on such topics as post-herpetic neuralgia, vein of Galen malformations, and cavernous malformations