Evidence for Neurosurgery: Effective Procedures and Treatment

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This book covers spinal, cranial and peripheral nerve surgeries. Each chapter has a uniform format for ease of reading, including a description of the problem, a literature summary and analysis, and conclusions made using evidence-based medicine (including the GRADE method). The scientific evidence for a selection of neurosurgical procedures for well-known pathologic entities is thoroughly summarized and analysed in order to provide an overview of the efficacy and effectiveness of procedures in relation to the target patient population. Evidence for Neurosurgery: Effective Procedures & Treatment is aimed at a professional audience of junior and consultant neurosurgeons, researchers in the area, and policy makers. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Evidence in Neurosurgery (Ronald H. M. A. Bartels, Gert P. Westert, Maroeska M. Rovers)....Pages 1-4 The Value of Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury (Angelos G. Kolias, Athanasios Paschalis, Kostas N. Fountas, Peter J. Hutchinson)....Pages 5-18 Cranioplasty: Does Timing Have Any Effect on the Degree of Neurological Recovery or the Complication Rate? (Zayan Mahmooth, James G. Malcolm, Rima S. Rindler, Faiz U. Ahmad)....Pages 19-40 Age: A Criterion to Offer Surgical Treatment as a Cytoreductive Tool for Malignant Primary Brain Tumour? (Joseph H. McAbee, Aida K. Golahmadi, Colin Watts)....Pages 41-54 A Restriction for the Surgical or Endovascular Treatment of a Ruptured Aneurysm in the Elderly? (Christian Mirian, Tiit Mathiesen)....Pages 55-68 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysm: Clipping or Coiling (Rami O. Almefty, Robert F. Spetzler)....Pages 69-76 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: The Scientific Base for Flow Diverters (Michelle F. M. ten Brinck, Joost de Vries)....Pages 77-95 Controversies in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery: Micro-Electrode Recordings (Jeroen Habets, Bethany Isaacs, Saman Vinke, Pieter Kubben)....Pages 97-109 Chiari Malformation: Posterior Fossa Decompression With or Without Duraplasty? (Alexander Perdomo-Pantoja, Rajiv R. Iyer, Alan R. Cohen)....Pages 111-125 Craniosynostosis: Endoscopically Versus Open Treatment (Hans Delye)....Pages 127-143 Posterior Decompression for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Laminectomy, Laminectomy and Fusion or Laminoplasty (Fan Jiang, Hiroyuki Katoh, Kazuya Yokota, Michael G. Fehlings)....Pages 145-174 Early Versus Delayed Surgery for Cervical Disc Herniation (Lukas Bobinski, Yohan Robinson)....Pages 175-191 The Oblique Corpectomy, Forgotten but an Effective Procedure? A Systematic Review (Nadia N. F. Simoes de Souza, Anne A. E. H. Broekema, Jos J. M. A. Kuijlen)....Pages 193-208 Cervical Arthroplasty: The Evidence (Ricardo Vieira Botelho, Marcelo Luis Mudo, Jerônimo Buzetti Milano, Juliete Melo Diniz, Andrei Fernandes Joaquim)....Pages 209-221 Cauda Equina Syndrome Due to Ruptured Lumbar Intervertebral Disc: Optimal Timing for Surgery (Carmen L. A. Vleggeert-Lankamp, Nina S. Korse, Henk W. Elzevier)....Pages 223-235 The Use of Minimal Invasive Techniques for Lumbar Herniated Disc in Comparison to More Classical Approaches (Mark P. Arts, Wilco C. H. Jacobs)....Pages 237-255 Comparative Analysis of Open Versus Minimally Invasive Techniques for Posterior or Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (Lee Hwang, Vikram Chakravarthy, William Kemp, Michael Steinmetz, Edward Benzel)....Pages 257-276 Preoperative Preparation of Osteoporotic Patients for Instrumented Spine Surgery (Sebastian Hartmann, Heiko Koller)....Pages 277-322 Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: Primary Decompression or Transposition of the Ulnar Nerve at the Elbow (David G. Dennison, Robert J. Spinner)....Pages 323-330 Open Versus Endoscopische Cubital Tunnel Release (Brigitte E. P. A. van der Heijden, Henk J. Coert)....Pages 331-352 Surgical Treatment of Meralgia Paresthetica (Elias B. Rizk, Russell A. Payne)....Pages 353-360 Evidence in Neurosurgery: Perspectives (Viktoria Shimanskaya, Jill Martens, Jeroen Boogaarts, Gert P. Westert, Maroeska M. Rovers, Ronald H. M. A. Bartels)....Pages 361-371