BookConcezio Di Rocco, Nejat Akalan, editors.
Summary: "Provides a comprehensive approach to CVJ diseases and their management based on the multidisciplinary cooperation of neurosurgeons, anatomists, neuroradiologists, and neuroanesthesiologists. The main topics highlighted are embryology, normal and abnormal development of the CVJ, including the related vessels, modern radiological contributions to diagnosis, genetic and metabolic factors which may impact on the surgical strategies, the opportunities offered by traditional operative techniques, and the recently introduced minimally invasive and endoscopic surgical modalities. Special emphasis is also placed on the evolution of the principles of surgical treatment as matured during the past decade by experiences in the still open field of pediatric neurosurgery"--publisher description.
Contents:
Nosographic identification and management of pediatric craniovertebral junction anomalies: evolution of concepts and modalities of treatment
Embryology, classification, and surgical management of bony malformations of the craniovertebral junction
Extracranial segments of the vertebral artery: insight in the developmental changes up to the 21st year of life
Imaging of the craniovertebral junction anomalies in children
Anaesthesiological and intensive care management in craniovertebral junction surgery
Technical advances in pediatric craniovertebral junction surgery
Craniovertebral junction instability: special reference to pediatric age group
Minimally invasive posterior trans-muscular C1-C2 screw fixation through an anatomical corridor to preserve occipitalcervical tension band: surgical anatomy and clinical experience
Os odontoideum syndrome: pathogenesis, clinical patterns and indication for surgical strategies in childhood
Craniovertebral junction anomalies in achondroplastic children
Craniovertebral junction pathological features and their management in the mucopolysaccharidoses
Pediatric craniovertebral junction trauma.