Neurosurgery

BRAIN MAPPING IN NEUROSURGERY

Background and Aim: Brain mapping is a study of the anatomy and function of the CNS (central nervous system). Brain mapping has many techniques and these techniques are permanently changing and updating. From the beginning, brain mapping was invasive and for brain mapping, electrical stimulation of the exposed brain was needed. However, nowadays brain mapping does not require electrical stimula...

CLINICAL NEUROSURGERY PROCEEDINGS Excellence in Spinal Neurosurgery

The New Oxford English Dictionary defines excellence as ‘‘the possession chiefly of good qualities in an eminent or unusual degree surpassing merit or skill.’’ The definition of medicine is ‘‘the art of restoring and preserving health.’’ Consequently, excellence in medicine is the art of restoring and preserving health with surpassing merit or skill. For patients, the price of mediocrity is hig...

Update in neurosurgery - nanotechnology in neurosurgery.

Nanotechnology define the science and engineering providing entirely new tools and capabilities, concerned with the design, synthesis, characterization and application of materials and devices that have a functional organization in at least 1 dimension on the nanometer (one billionth of a meter) capable to interact with cells and tissues at a molecular sub cellular level with a high degree of f...

CHAPTER Neurosurgery

• Successful management of traumatic brain injury requires rapid assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of primary in­ juries and avoidance of secondary injuries from hypoxia, hypotension, increased intracranial pressure, and seizures. • Progressive obtundation, pupillary abnormalities, or other lateralizing neurologic findings in combination with intra­ cranial lesions such as epidural hematoma,...

Operative Neurosurgery