Learn from key leaders in the field of neurosurgery with the practical guidance presented in this first-of-its-kind resource.
Complications in Neurosurgery uses a case-based format to explore complications across the full range of commonly performed neurosurgical procedures. As you review dozens of up-to-date, real-life cases, you’ll become better equipped to identify pitfalls ahead of time and have the knowledge to handle difficult situations that arise during surgery.
Table of ContentsSection one: General neurosurgery
- 1. Historical perspective
- 2. Informed consent and medico legal aspects of neurosurgery
- 3. Wrong Side Craniotomy and Wrong Level Spine Surgery - ‘res ipsa loquitur’
- 4. Medical complications in neurosurgery
- 5. Surgical complications in cranial and spine surgery (Position-related, pneumocephalus, pseudomeningocoele and CSF leak, wound complications)
- 6. Venous injury and cerebral edema in cranial surgery
- 7. Post-operative hematoma after neurosurgery
Section two: Cranial complications
Vascular surgery complications
- 8. Overview
- 9. Intra-operative rupture and parent artery injury during aneurysm surgery
- 10. Cerebral Vasospasm: complications and avoidance
- 11. Complications of AVM microsurgery; steal phenomenon and management of residual AVM
- 12. Complications of cerebral bypass surgery
- 13. Complications of surgery for cavernomas
- 14. Complication of Carotid endarterectomy
Skull base surgery complications
- 15. Overview
- 16. Complications in anterior cranial fossa surgery
- 17. Complications in middle cranial fossa surgery
- 18. Complications in posterior cranial fossa surgery
- 19. Complications of Chiari Malformation surgery
Primary brain lesion resection complications
- 20. Primary brain lesion resection complications: An Overview
- 21. Complications following glioma surgery
- 22. Complications of surgery for pituitary tumors
- 23. Thalamic and insular tumors: minimizing deficits
- 24. Complications of surgery for pineal region tumors
- 25. Complications associated with surgery for intracranial infectious lesions : (tuberculosis, hydatid, neurocysticercosis)
- 26. Malignant Brain Swelling After Resection of Superior Sagittal Sinus Meningioma
- 27. Facial nerve and Auditory nerve deficit in GKRS for vestibular schwannomas
- Pediatric neurosurgery complications
- 28. Complications of posterior fossa tumors: ependymoma/ medulloblastoma/ pilocytic astrocytoma
- 29. Craniopharyngioma: complications after microsurgery
- 30. Complications associated with Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion
- 31. Complications After Myelomeningocele Repair: CSF Leak and Retethering
Functional and radiosurgery, Surgery for trigeminal neuralgia; Complications
- 32. Complications of various treatment options for trigeminal neuralgia
- 33. Complications of DBS
- 34. Complications following epilepsy surgery
- 35. Complications after Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Endoscopic surgery
- 36. Complications of endonasal endoscopy
- 37. Vascular injuries in transsphenoidal approach
- 38. Complications of ventricular endoscopy
Endovascular surgery
- 39. Access-related complications: (groin hematoma, dissection and pseudoaneurysm, contrast-nephropathy, air embolism)
- 40. Procedure-related complications: Aneurysms-Intraprocedural rupture, thromboembolic events, coil migration or prolapse into parent artery, and recurrent aneurysm management
- 41. Procedure related complications: AVM embolization
- 42. Procedure related complications: Stroke
- 43. Procedure related complications: CCF and AVF
Trauma
- 44. Complications after decompressive craniectomy and cranioplasty
- 45. Complications following surgery for chronic subdural hematoma
Section three: Spinal and peripheral nerve surgery complications
General and Degenerative spinal disease surgery complications
- 46. Overview of General and Degenerative Spine Surgery Complications
- 47. Adjacent level disc degeneration and pseudoarthrosis
- 48. Graft related complications (Autograft, BMP, synthetic)
- 49. Procedure related complications (Inadvertent dural tear, CSF leak)
- 50. Complications of surgery at craniocervical junction
- 51. Neurologic deterioration after spinal surgery (including cauda equine)
- 52. Vascular injury during approach to lumbar spine
- 53. Vascular complications in cervical spine surgery (anterior approach and posterior approach)
- 54. Instrumentation related complications
- 55. Post-op spinal deformities: kyphosis, non-union and loss of motion segment
- 56. Complications of MIS
- Spinal neoplastic and vascular lesion surgery complications
- 57. Complications in Spinal Cord Tumor Surgery
- 58. Complications of surgery for vertebral body tumors
- 59. Complications of surgery for spinal vascular malformations
- 60. Complications of surgery and radiosurgery in spinal metastasis
Spinal Trauma and peripheral nerve surgery complications
- 61. Complication of spinal fractures
- 62. Post-traumatic syringomyelia
- 63. Complications of Surgery for Peripheral Nerve Injuries and Tumors
