DOODY'S BOOK REVIEW
REVIEWER'S EXPERT OPINION
Ramsis Farid Ghaly, MD, FACS(Ghaly Neurosurgical Associates)
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Description
This update of a comprehensive textbook of neurological surgery adds 100 chapters covering recent advances in anatomy, physiology, and differential diagnosis and contains hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations, tables, images, and diagrams.
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Purpose
The purpose is to provide comprehensive, detailed, up-to-date, and clinically oriented coverage of all aspects of neurosurgery.
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Audience
The audience is adult and pediatric neurosurgeons as well as general and ENT surgeons, neurologists, neuroradiologists, and neuroscientists. The authors and the majority of the contributors are from India.
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Features
The detailed chapters are grouped into 18 sections that cover the history of neurosurgery, diagnostics, congenital, head injuries, spinal injuries, peripheral nerve, infections, vascular disorders, tumors of the spine and spinal cord, spinal disc disease and other spinal pathologies, pathology of intracranial tumors, cranial and intracranial tumors A and B, skull base surgery, stereotaxy, pain, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and miscellaneous topics such as anesthesia, positioning, operating room setup, instrumentation, and navigation.
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Assessment
This book is well written and organized and takes readers step-by-step through each topic, covering the history, medical, diagnostic, pathological, and surgical treatment, and outcome. Because the authors and a majority of the contributors are from India, the book covers neurosurgical disorders, both common and uncommon, seen in this region of the world. Readers, therefore, can compare this book with other textbooks in neurosurgery written by authors from other regions of the world to globalize their understanding and management.
This update is a great accomplishment for the authors and the contributors.
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Ratings: | | (3 Stars) |
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