- Offers a practical neuroanatomical reference guide to brain surgery
- Exclusively applies microneuroanatomy to practical aspects of surgery
- Features a wealth of figures, photographs and videos
Microneuroanatomy is essential to understanding the brain. In many cases, passing on neuroanatomical knowledge is a difficult task to accomplish, yet this is chiefly due to those who are tasked with conveying this knowledge in classes and lectures, or in books.
In reality, neuroanatomy is simple and needs to be understood as a tool for approaching the different areas of the brain, not as an obstacle, and the only way to overcome this problem is to correlate neuroanatomy with various types of disease (arteriovenous malformations, aneurysms, tumors, cavernomas, hydrocephalus, etc.)
This book provides a novel approach to the relation between microneuroanatomy and brain diseases. Each chapter addresses a specific neuroanatomical region, and correlates all the key neuroanatomical aspects with diseases that affect it; further, each chapter provides detailed insights into safely performing brain surgery in the respective region.
Table of Contents- 1. Surgical Anatomy of the Sulci and Gyri of the Brain
- 2. Surgical Anatomy of the Frontal Lobe
- 3. Surgical Anatomy of the Parietal and Occipital Lobes
- 4. Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal Lobe
- 5. Surgical Anatomy of the Central Core of the Brain
- 6. Surgical Anatomy of the Lateral Ventricles
- 7. Surgical Anatomy of the Third Ventricle
- 8. Surgical Anatomy of the Cerebellum and Forth Ventricle
- 9. Surgical Anatomy of the Midbrain
- 10. Surgical Anatomy of the Pons
- 11. Surgical Anatomy of the Anterior Basal Cisterns
- 12. Surgical Anatomy of the Medulla Oblongata
- 13. Surgical Anatomy of the Posterior Basal Cisterns
- 14. Surgical Anatomy of the Posterior Fossa Cisterns
- 15. Surgical Anatomy of the Sellar Region
- 16. Surgical Anatomy of the Parasellar Region
- 17. Surgical Anatomy of the Foramen Magno
- 18. Surgical Anatomy of the Pineal Region
