Brain and Spine Surgery in the Elderly

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Berhouma, Moncef (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Krolak-Salmon, Pierre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Geriatrics.; Oncology.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

This unique and richly illustrated volume presents the state of the art in the comprehensive management of major neurosurgical diseases in the elderly (aged 65 and over). It explores all of the common neurosurgical pathologies affecting elderly patients, and emphasizes the paramount importance of ta...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• FOREWORD
• PREFACE: Epistemology, rationale and demographics of geriatric neurosurgery
• PART 1 – NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ELDERLY - Chapter 1. Physiology of the ageing nervous system
• Chapter 2. Neurological assessment and neurocognitive evaluation of the elderly
• PART 2 – NEUROANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE - Chapter 3. Neuroanesthesia of the elderly
• Chapter 4. Perioperative neurotoxicity in the elderly
• PART 3 – INTRACRANIAL TUMORS - Chapter 5. Intracranial meningiomas
• Chapter 6. Brain gliomas
• Chapter 7. Pituitary adenomas
• Chapter 8. Vestibular schwannomas
• Chapter 9. Brain metastases
• Chapter 10. CNS Lymphoma
• PART 4 – SPINAL PATHOLOGIES - Chapter 11. Degenerative cervical spine
• Chapter 12. Degenerative lumbar spine
• Chapter 13. Spinal injuries of the elderly
• Chapter 14. Vertebral tumors of the elderly
• Chapter 15. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors
• Chapter 16. Intradural extramedullary spinal tumors
• Chapter 17. Spinal infections
• PART 5 – HEAD INJURY - Chapter 18. Traumatic brain injury in the elderly
• Chapter 19. Chronic subdural hematoma
• PART 6 – NEUROVASCULAR - Chapter 20. Subarachnoid hemorrhage in the elderly
• Chapter 21. Intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage
• Chapter 22. Malignant pseudo-tumoral stroke
• PART 7 – HYDROCEPHALUS IN THE ELDERLY
• PART 8 – TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
• PART 9 – ETHICAL ISSUES IN NEUROSURGICAL ELDERLY PATIENTS
• APPENDIX.