Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to neurosurgery for postgraduate trainees. It compiles the information in Textbook of Neurosurgery, Third Edition, Three Volume Set (also authored by Prakash Narain Tandon and Ravi Ramamurthi), into one single volume.

Divided into seventeen sections, the book covers all the key topics in neurosurgery - diagnostics, congenital malformations, head and spinal injuries, infections, vascular disorders, tumours and much more. Sub-sections within each topic discuss different associated disorders. Neurosurgical techniques for epilepsy and cerebral palsy are also described.

With an extensive and expert author and editor team, this useful manual includes nearly 300 images, illustrations and tables to enhance learning.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to neurosurgery for postgraduates
Compiles information from authors' previous three volume set into one volume
Covers numerous neurosurgical techniques
Includes nearly 300 images, illustrations and tables

Contents:

Volume I

Section I: Diagnostics
Section II: Congenital
Section III: Head Injuries
Section IV: Spinal Injuries
Section V: Peripheral Nerve
Section VI: Infections
Section VII: Vascular Disorders
Section VIII: Tumours of The Spine And Spinal Cord
Section IX: Disc Disease and Other Spinal Pathologies
Section X: Pathology of Intracranial Tumours

Volume II

Section XIA: Cranial and Intracranial Tumours
Section XIB: Cranial and Intracranial Tumours
Section XII: Skull Base Surgery
Section XIII: Stereotaxy
Section XIV: Pain
Section XV: Epilepsy
Section XVI: Cerebral Palsy
Section XVII: Miscellaneous