Oxford Textbook of Neurological Surgery

Ramez Kirollos is a Consultant Neurosurgeon, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.Adel Helmy is a University Lecturer in Neurosurgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.Simon Thomson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.Peter Hutchinson is a Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Cambridge, UK.

• Section 1: Principles of Neurological Surgery 1: Henry Marsh and Eleni Marts: The History of Neurosurgery 2: Peter Bodkin and Elizabeth Visser: Clinical Assessment 3: Tomasz Matys, Daniel. J. Scoffings, and Tilak Das: Overview of Neuroimaging 4: Neil Kitchen and Jonathan Shapey: Operating Theatre Environment 5: Derek Duane, Alessandro Scudellari, Karol P Budohoski, and Sylvia Karcheva: Perioperative Care of the Neurosurgical Patient Section 2: Tumours and Skull Base - Intrinsic Tumour 6: Hugues Duffau, Lorenzo Bello, and Thomas Santarius: Low Grade Glioma 7: Stephen Price, Harry Bulstrode, and Richard Mair: High Grade Gliomas and Molecular Biology of Neurosurgical Oncology 8: Andrew Brodbelt and Rashed Zakaria: Intracranial Metastasis 9: Boon Leong and Thangaraj Munusamy: Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma 10: Matthias Simon and Alexander Grote: Glioneuronal and other epilepsy-associated tumours 11: Susan Short: Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery for Brain Tumours 12: Nicholas Brown, Daniel Krell, and Paul Mulholland: Chemotherapy for Brain Tumours 13: Mitchel Berger and Shawn Hervey-Jumper: Surgical Techniques in the Management of Intrinsic Tumours Section 3: Tumours and Skull Base - Extra-axial and Skull Lesions 14: Michael McDermott, Thomas Santarius, Harjus Birk, Seunggu J. Han, and Ramez Kirollos: Meningiomas & Haemangiopericytoma 15: Ossama Al-Mefty and Rami O. Almefty: Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas of the skull base 16: Andrew McEvoy: Dermoid and Epidermoid Cysts 17: Fred Gentili, Lior Gonen, and Georgios Klironomos: Esthesioneuroblastoma 18: Benedict Panizza and Adel Helmy: Malignant Skull Base Tumours 19: Paul Gardner, Joseph D. Chabot, and S. Tonya Stefko: Surgical Management of Tumours of the Orbit 20: Ivan Tmofeev and Giorgio Gioffre: Skull Lesions 21: Michael Cusimano and Michael P. Meier: Surgical Management of Anterolateral Skull Base Lesions Section 4: Tumours and Skull Base - CP Angle 22: Tiit Mathiesen and Petter Förander: Schwannomas 23: Andrew King and Omar Pathmanaban: Glomus Tumours 24: Andrew Kaye, Nicholas Hall, and Yuval Sufaro: Surgical management of cerebellopontine angle and petrous lesions Section 5: Tumours and Skull Base - Sellar and Supra Sellar Tumours 25: Kanna Gnanalingham, Zsolt Zador, Tara Kearney, Federico Roncaroli, and H Rao Gattamaneni: Pituitary Tumours 26: Rudolf Fahlbusch, V. Gerganov, and H. Metwali: Craniopharyngioma and Rathke's Cleft cysts 27: William Couldwell and Jayson A. Neil: Surgical Management of Sellar and Suprasellar Tumours Section 6: Tumours and Skull Base - Posterior Fossa 28: James Rutka: Medulloblastoma 29: Christopher Chandler: Ependymoma 30: Donald McArthur and Ammar Natalwala: Haemangioblastoma 31: Jacques Morcos, Osaama Khan, and Ashish Shah: Surgical Approaches to Posterior Fossa Tumours Section 7: Tumours and Skull Base - Intraventricular 32: Paul Grundy and Vasileios Apostolopoulos: Intraventricular Tumours 33: Paul Chumas and Asim Sheikh: Colloid Cyst 34: Shlomi Constantini, Jonathan Roth, and Rina Dvir: Choroid Plexus tumours 35: Guilherme Ribas, Eduardo Ribas, and Ramez W Kirollos: Surgical Management of Intraventricular Lesions Section 8: Tumours and Skull Base - Pineal 36: Michael Jenkinson, Mueez Waqar, Samantha Mills, and Conor L Mallucci: Pineal Tumours 37: Nicolas de Tribolet, Christoph M Woernle, and René Bernays: Surgical management of pineal region lesions Section 9: Tumours and Skull Base - Tumour Syndromes 38: Timothy Jones, Fay Greenway, and Frances Elmslie: Neurophakomatoses 39: Thomas Santarius, Hani Marcus, and Yizhou Wan: Uncommon Brain Lesions Section 10: Neurotrauma and Intensive Care 40: Nabeel Alshafai and Andrew Maas: Epidemiology of head injury and outcome after head injury 41: Geoffrey Manley, John K. Yue, Hansen Deng, Ethan A. Winkler, John F. Burke, and Catherine Suen: Pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury 42: Martin Smith and Matthew A. Kirkman: Intensive Care Management of Head Injury 43: Randall Chesnut, Hadie Adams, Angelos Kolias, Peter Hutchinson, and Adel Helmy: Surgical Management of Head Injury 44: Antonio Belli, Fardad T. Afshari, and Peter C Whitfield: Complications of head injury 45: Mark Wilson: Concussion and Sports Related Head Injury Section 11: Vascular Neurosurgery 46: Diederik O. Bulters and Andrew Durnford: Normal Cerebrovascular Physiology and Vascular Anatomy 47: Neal Kassell, Giuseppe Lanzino, and Federico Cagnazzo: The Pathophysiology of Aneurysms 48: Jason McMillen: The Pathophysiology of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage 49: Michael Lawton and Roberto Rodriguez: Management of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage 50: Michael Morgan: Arteriovenous Malformation and Dural Arteriovenous Fistulae 51: Mohsen Javadpour, Kieron Sweeney, and A. O'Hare: Carotid Artery Disease and Cerebral Ischaemia 52: Peter Kirkpatrick and Mathew Guilfoyle: Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass for Cerebral Ischaemia 53: Mario Teo, Michael Lawton, and Omar Choudhri: Giant Aneurysms and Bypass Surgery 54: Andreas W. Unterberg and Berk Orakcioglu: Spontaneous Intracranial Haematoma 55: Hiren Patel and Janneke van Beijnum: Cavernoma and angiographically occult lesions Section 12: Spinal Surgery - Principles 56: Simon Thomson, Chris Derham, and Senthil Selvanathan: Surgical Principles in spinal surgery 57: Peter Loughenbury and Richard M Hall: Spinal stability 58: Sadaquate Khan, Kevin Tsang, and Lamia Nayeb: Spinal physiology 59: Chris McGuigan, Karen O'Connell, Eavan McGovern, and Iain McGurgan: Medical pathologies of the spinal cord Section 13: Spinal Surgery 60: Navin Furtado, Georgios Tsermoulas, and Adikarige Haritha Dulanka Silva: Cervical Spinal Disease 61: Ciaran Bolger, Kieron Sweeney, and Catherine Moran: Thoracic Spinal Disease 62: Matt Crocker and Chris Kellett: Lumbar Spinal Disease 63: John Brecknell and Quah Boon Leong: Spinal Tumours 64: Daniel Walsh: Vascular Lesions of the Spinal Cord 65: Graham Flint: Spinal cerebrospinal fluid dynamics 66: Peter Milner and Nigel Gummerson: Scoliosis and Spinal Deformity Section 14: Spinal Trauma 67: Edward Benzel, Bryan Lee, and Saksith Smithason: Managing Spinal Cord Trauma 68: Calan Mathieson, Chris Barrett, and Likhith Alakandy: Cervical Spine Injuries 69: Bedansh Roy Chaudhary: Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Injuries 70: Fahim Anwar, Wail Ahmed, Tamara Tajsic, Damiano G. Barone, and Harry Mee: Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Section 15: Peripheral Nerve Surgery 71: Alan Forster and Robert Morris: Elecrodiagnostics 72: Grainne Bourke: Entrapment Syndromes 73: Jonathan Perera and Marco Sinisi: Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injuries 74: Ricin Trivedi and Vincent Nga: Peripheral Nerve Tumours Section 16: Functional Neurosurgery 75: Alex Green, Tipu Aziz, and Erlick Pereira: Principles of Deep Brain Stimulation 76: Keyoumars Ashkan and Ismail Ughratdar: Movement Disorders 77: John Goodden, Catherine Hernon, and Brian Scott: Spasticity 78: Richard Mannion and Rokas Tamosauskas: Pain pathophysiology and surgical management 79: Marc Sindou and George Georgoulis: Cranial Nerve Vascular Compression Syndromes 80: Bart Nuttin, Loes Gabriels, and Chris Bervoets: Neurosurgical interventions for psychiatric disorders Section 17: Epilepsy 81: Richard Selway: Diagnosis and Assessment 82: Andrew McEvoy, Tim Wehner, and Victoria Wykes: Classification of Seizures and Epilepsy 83: Johannes Schramm: Surgical Management of Epilepsy Section 18: Paediatrics 84: Colin Ferrie and Daniel Warren: Developmental Disorders of the brain 85: Dominic Thompson: Spinal development and spinal dysraphism 86: Federico Di Rocco, Pierre-Aurelien Beuriat, and Eric Arnaud: Craniofaciosynostosis : syndromic and non-syndromic craniofacial anomalies 87: Andrew Kay, Desiderio Rodrigues, Melanie Sharp, and Guirish Solanki: Special Considerations in Paediatric Head and Spinal Trauma 88: Shlomi Constantini and Jonathan Roth: Paediatric Brain Tumours 89: Conor Malucci, Matt Bailey, and Chris Parks: Paediatric Hydrocephalus 90: Atul Tyagi, Helen McCullagh, Tony Goddard, and Tufail Patankar: Paediatric neurovascular disorders 91: Martin Tisdall and Sophia Varadkar: Paediatric Epilepsy Section 19: CSF Disorders 92: Harold Rekate and Alexander Gamble: Hydrocephalus and Normal CSF Dynamics 93: Ian K. Pople and William Singleton: Shunt Technology and Endoscopic Ventricular Surgery 94: Nicole Keong: Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus 95: John D. Pickard and Nicholas Higgins: Pseudotumour cerebri Syndrome 96: Stana Bojanic and Ruichong Ma: Arachnoid Cysts Section 20: Infection 97: Walter Hall: Microbiology 98: Eugene Yang, Thangaraj Munusamy, and Boon Hoe Tan: Cranial infections 99: Nicholas Haden and Edward White: Spinal infection

With more than 1000 pages, figures, and tables, this textbook constitutes an exhaustive neurosurgical resource that will serve as a valuable tool for neurological surgery residents, junior neurosurgeons, and experienced neurosurgeons.