The Evidence for Neurosurgery

For physicians-in-training, neurologists, neurological surgeons, radiation oncologists, and medical doctors, Ghogawala (neurosurgery, Tufts U.) et al. bring together 35 chapters by a group of neurosurgeons from the US, Asia, Canada, and Israel. They examine controversial areas of neurological surgery by applying current evidence on the pathophysiology of each disease and outcomes from surgical and non-surgical treatments. They explain the levels of clinical evidence and types of study designs, then common conditions and situations related to spinal neurosurgery, as well as how to interpret the clinical evidence and the limitations of randomized controlled trials. Subsequent sections address functional neurosurgery, including epilepsy, mesial temporal sclerosis, movement disorders, medical and psychiatric conditions, and chronic pain; common questions related to tumors; pediatric neurosurgery, particularly hydrocephalus, Chiari malformations, myelomeningocele, and medulloblastoma; vascular neurosurgery, including intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, intracranial and extracranial arterial stenosis, vasospasm, and intraparenchymal/intraventricular hemorrhage; and neurotrauma, including traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. There is no index. US distribution by BookMasters. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)