Franco DeMonte, Mark R. Gilbert, Anita Mahajan, and Ian E. McCutcheon Editors 2007 Although the annual incidence of intrinsic tumors of the central nervous system (CNS)—about 17,000 to 20,000 in the United States—is much lower than that of more common cancers arising in the lung, breast, or other sites, CNS tumors are prominent in oncology for several reasons. […]
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J. W. M. Van Goethem · L. van den Hauwe P. M. Parizel (Eds.) 2007 Diagnostic Imaging of the Spine and Spinal Cord Diseases of the spine are very common. They affect up to 80% of the population worldwide and may cause pain, disability and economic loss. Pain or discomfort originating in the spine is usually a self-limiting […]
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Massimo Gallucci • Silvia Capoccia • Alessia Catalucci 2007 I have been meaning to publish an atlas of neuroradiologic cranio-encephalic anatomy for at least the last decade. Normal anatomy has always been of great and charming interest to me. Over the years, while preparing lectures for my students, I have always enjoyed lingering on anatomical details that […]
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Cathy C. Cartwright Donna C. Wallace Editors 2007 When we began working in pediatric neurosurgery as advanced practice nurses, we searched for a reference that would explain the different neurosurgical conditions affecting our patients and teach us how to care for them. There was nothing to be found. We asked our colleagues for a reference and they, too, had […]
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Bernhard Schaller (ed.) 2007
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Edited by JACQUELINE SAW J. EMILIO EXAIRE DAVID S. LEE JAY S. YADAV 2007 Since the first carotid angioplasty that was performed in 1980, this technique has undergone tremendous modifications and improvements. Stents for the carotid artery were utilized in the early 1990s, and emboli protection devices were introduced about 2000.
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C. Stippich (Ed.) 2007 Presurgical Functional Neuroimaging Over the past decade, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has undergone a continuing process of technical and methodological maturation and refinement, facilitating its application in a clinical environment. One of the earliest and best validated clinical applications of fMRI was, and remains, presurgical assessment of brain function in patients with brain tumors and […]
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Edited by J. D. Pickard, Cambridge (Editor-in-Chief), N. Akalan, Ankara, C. Di Rocco, Roma, V. V. Dolenc, Ljubljana, J. Lobo Antunes, Lisbon, J. J. A. Mooij, Groningen, J. Schramm, Bonn, M. Sindou, Lyon 2007 As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons, we began to publish in 1974 this series of Advances […]
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M. Filippi M. Rovaris G. Comi (Eds) 2007
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Vincenzo R. Sanguineti 2007 Three languages to integrate neurobiology and psychology I met Vincenzo Sanguineti at a crucial point of my career, when, after 20 years of involvement in biological research applied to psychiatric disorders, I started to feel the emptiness and aridity of biological explanations that, besides the evidence of being incomplete and rough, lack, as Mandell […]
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