Neurosurgery Outlines

Description:

Pocket-size, user-friendly roadmap outlines most common surgical procedures in neurosurgery!
Surgery requires a combination of knowledge and skill acquired through years of direct observation, mentorship,
and practice. The learning curve can be steep, frustrating, and intimidating for many medical students and junior
residents. Too often, books and texts that attempt to translate the art of surgery are far too comprehensive for
this audience and counterproductive to learning important basic skills to succeed. Neurosurgery Outlines by
neurosurgeon Paul E. Kaloostian is the neuro-surgical volume in the Surgical Outlines series of textbooks that offer
a simplified roadmap to surgery.

This unique resource outlines key steps for common surgeries, laying a solid foundation of basic knowledge from which
trainees can easily build and expand. The text serves as a starting point for learning neurosurgical techniques, with
room for adding notes, details, and pearls collected during the journey. The chapters are systematically organized and
formatted by subspecialty, encompassing spine, radiosurgery, brain tumors and vascular lesions, head trauma,
functional neurosurgery, epilepsy, pain, and hydrocephalus. Each chapter includes symptoms and signs, surgical
pathology, diagnostic modalities, differential diagnosis, treatment options, indications for surgical intervention,
step-by-step procedures, pitfalls, prognosis, and references where applicable.

Key Features

Provides quick procedural outlines essential for understanding procedures and assisting attending neurosurgeons
during rounds

Spine procedures organized by cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccyx regions cover traumatic, elective,
and tumor/vascular-related interventions

Cranial topics include lesion resection for brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease and TBI treatment



Section I: Spine
1. Cervical
2 Thoracic
3 Lumbar
4 Sacral
5 Coccyx

Section II: Radiosurgery/CyberKnife Treatment
6 Spinal Radiosurgery
7 Cranial Radiosurgery

Section III: Cranial Lesion Resection (Brain Tumor, Vascular Lesions)
8 Brain Tumors
9 Cerebral Vascular Lesions

Section IV: Cranial Trauma
10 Epidural Hematoma Evacuation/Subdural Hematoma Evacuation/Intracerebral Hemorrhage Evacu
11 Hemicraniectomy (Unilateral, Bilateral, Bifrontal versus Frontotemporal)
12 Cranioplasty
13 Placement of External Ventricular Drain/Placement of Intraparenchymal ICP Monitor

Section V: Functional Neurosurgery
14 Deep Brain Stimulation

Section VI: Epilepsy
15 Subdural Grid Placement
16 Amygdalohippocampectomy

Section VII: Pain Management Strategies
17 Spinal Cord Stimulator
18 Baclofen Pump/Morphine Pump

Section VIII: Hydrocephalus Treatment
19 Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
20 Lumboperitoneal Shunt
21 Ventriculopleural Shunt
22 Ventriculoatrial Shunt

Index