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Contemporary management of spinal cord injury
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CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT OF SPINAL CORD INJURY Edited by J!dward C. Benzei, M.D. and Charles H. Tator, M.D. 307 pages. $90.00. Park Ridge, Illinois: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1995. ISBN l-879284-30-8.
CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FROM A SURGICAL PERSPECTIVE Edited by James Tait Goodrich and Craig D. Hall. 213 pages. $149.00. Stuttgart, New York: Georg Thieme Verlag, 1995. ISBN O-86577-522-2.
This book, in the tradition of AANS publications, provides a comprehensive overview of the management of the patient with spinal cord injury. The editors have compiled a complete and detailed account of the current thinking regarding diagnosis and treatment of this type of injury, as presented by multiple experts in the field. The book’s purpose is to provide a practical set of references and guidelines to the neurosurgeon for understanding the pathophysioiogic aspects of spinal cord injury and how they are related to the latest imaging, diagnostic, and treatment modaiities, It is targeted mainly at practicing neurosurgeons, but residents will find it invaluable in order to learn from its systematic approach to the contemporary management of spinal cord injury. The book provides numerous tables and algorithms filled with guidelines to help the neurosurgeon make multiple diagnostic decisions. It also provides many technical points regarding the surgical management of these patients, as well as historical background of the issues at hand. The references are current and pertinent. Overall, this is a very useful book for neurosurgeons both in practice and in training, who inevitably will work with the acute and, to some extent, chronic management of spinal cord injuries. The editors have put together a comprehensive text that includes the history, surgical, nonsurgical, and chronic management of these complicated patients. The text, however, is detailed enough to provide concrete and straightforward guidelines regarding contemporary techniques in imaging, diagnostic, and surgical management of these spinal cord injuries.
Although the pathogenesis of craniosynostosis remains essentially unknown, the secondary effects of the condition, namely the associated alterations in craniofacial growth and the possible impairment in CSF dynamics due to the focal or global reduction in intracranial volume have been extensively investigated in these last years. Consequently, the impact of the early fusion of one or more cranial sutures on the development of the craniofacial skeleton and related structures, such as the eye and the facial muscles, is nowadays considerably better understood than in the past. Correspondingly, it has become easier to establish the surgical indication and the planning of the surgical operation taking into consideration both preventive (early) and corrective (staged) surgical procedures. Furthermore, the surgical strategies to be adopted in the correction of the different craniofacial anomalies have been redefined on the grounds of the technical advantages offered by the improved preoperative and postoperative care, the advances made in surgical instrumentation, and the team approach currently adopted in the majority of the surgical centers. In particular, the role of the neurosurgeon in the team of “craniofacial’” surgeons has been considerably reevaluated as a result of the renewed interest in this type of pathological condition and the development of pediatric neurosurge~. An excellent example of the advantages provided by the multidisciplinary approach is provided by this well organized, nicely illustrated, multiauthored book: CRANiOFACL4LANOMALIES: Growth and ~eue~op~e~~ from a Surgicul Ferspectiue, edited by a neurosurgeon (J.T. Goodrich) and a craniofacial surgeon (C.D. Hall). The book conveys very elegantly, with its high-quality, full-color illustrations of exemplary cases, operative findings, and
Lorenzo
Muiioz-Ruiz,
M.D.
Chicago, Illinois SSDI 0090-3019(95)00242-V 0 1996 by Elsevier Science Inc. 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York,
NY 10010
BOOK
RE’VIEWS
CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT OF SPINAL CORD INJURY Edited by J!dward C. Benzei, M.D. and Charles H. Tator, M.D. 307 pages. $90.00. Park Ridge, Illinois: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1995. ISBN l-879284-30-8.
CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FROM A SURGICAL PERSPECTIVE Edited by James Tait Goodrich and Craig D. Hall. 213 pages. $149.00. Stuttgart, New York: Georg Thieme Verlag, 1995. ISBN O-86577-522-2.
This book, in the tradition of AANS publications, provides a comprehensive overview of the management of the patient with spinal cord injury. The editors have compiled a complete and detailed account of the current thinking regarding diagnosis and treatment of this type of injury, as presented by multiple experts in the field. The book’s purpose is to provide a practical set of references and guidelines to the neurosurgeon for understanding the pathophysioiogic aspects of spinal cord injury and how they are related to the latest imaging, diagnostic, and treatment modaiities, It is targeted mainly at practicing neurosurgeons, but residents will find it invaluable in order to learn from its systematic approach to the contemporary management of spinal cord injury. The book provides numerous tables and algorithms filled with guidelines to help the neurosurgeon make multiple diagnostic decisions. It also provides many technical points regarding the surgical management of these patients, as well as historical background of the issues at hand. The references are current and pertinent. Overall, this is a very useful book for neurosurgeons both in practice and in training, who inevitably will work with the acute and, to some extent, chronic management of spinal cord injuries. The editors have put together a comprehensive text that includes the history, surgical, nonsurgical, and chronic management of these complicated patients. The text, however, is detailed enough to provide concrete and straightforward guidelines regarding contemporary techniques in imaging, diagnostic, and surgical management of these spinal cord injuries.
Although the pathogenesis of craniosynostosis remains essentially unknown, the secondary effects of the condition, namely the associated alterations in craniofacial growth and the possible impairment in CSF dynamics due to the focal or global reduction in intracranial volume have been extensively investigated in these last years. Consequently, the impact of the early fusion of one or more cranial sutures on the development of the craniofacial skeleton and related structures, such as the eye and the facial muscles, is nowadays considerably better understood than in the past. Correspondingly, it has become easier to establish the surgical indication and the planning of the surgical operation taking into consideration both preventive (early) and corrective (staged) surgical procedures. Furthermore, the surgical strategies to be adopted in the correction of the different craniofacial anomalies have been redefined on the grounds of the technical advantages offered by the improved preoperative and postoperative care, the advances made in surgical instrumentation, and the team approach currently adopted in the majority of the surgical centers. In particular, the role of the neurosurgeon in the team of “craniofacial’” surgeons has been considerably reevaluated as a result of the renewed interest in this type of pathological condition and the development of pediatric neurosurge~. An excellent example of the advantages provided by the multidisciplinary approach is provided by this well organized, nicely illustrated, multiauthored book: CRANiOFACL4LANOMALIES: Growth and ~eue~op~e~~ from a Surgicul Ferspectiue, edited by a neurosurgeon (J.T. Goodrich) and a craniofacial surgeon (C.D. Hall). The book conveys very elegantly, with its high-quality, full-color illustrations of exemplary cases, operative findings, and
Lorenzo
Muiioz-Ruiz,
M.D.
Chicago, Illinois SSDI 0090-3019(95)00242-V 0 1996 by Elsevier Science Inc. 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York,
NY 10010