Neurosurgery

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Lumenta Christianto B.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Heidelberg
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: European manual of medicine
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79565-0
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxvii, 660 p.): ill.
ISBN: 9783540795650 (electronic bk.)
3540795650 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: R651
CLC: R651
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to neurosurgery -- Training in neurosurgery -- Basic training in technical skills: introduction to learning "surgical skills" in a constructive way -- The neurocranium: basics -- Brain tumors -- Vascular diseases -- Infectious disease -- Trauma -- Developmental and acquired anomalies -- Movement rehabilitation for trauma and vascular patients: traumatic brain injury and stroke -- The spine and spinal cord: basics -- Spinal tumors -- Degenerative disease -- Spinal vascular diseases -- Infectious disease of the spine -- Spinal trauma -- Syringomyelia -- Treatment and rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord lesions -- Peripheral nerve surgery: basics: aetiology, pathophysiology, general symptomatology and diagnosis of peripheral nerve injuries -- Clinical neurophysiology -- Therapy of peripheral nerve lesions -- Nerve compression syndromes in the extremities. Peripheral nerve tumors -- Autonomic nervous system -- Cranial nerve deficits -- Cranial nerve compression syndromes -- Cranial nerves conclusion -- Cranial and spinal dysraphisms -- Craniosynostosis -- Neurocutaneous syndromes -- Hydrocephalus -- Epilepsy -- Pain -- Functional stereotactic neurosurgery for movement disorders: deep brain stimulation -- Functional applications of radiosurgery -- Image-guided neurosurgery -- Spasticity and muscles: basics for understanding the different treatment modalities -- Consciousness impairment -- Intracranial hypertension -- Water and electrolyte regulation -- Temperature regulation -- Respiration -- Nutrition -- Multiresistant infections in neurointensive care patients -- Specific aspects of critical care for children.