BookSpyros Sgouros, editor.
Summary: During the past decade, neuroendoscopy has undergone a variety of technological improvements, and both indications and techniques have been significantly refined. As a result, neuroendoscopy is now used in the treatment of many more patients, enabling the performance of previously unavailable operations with low complication rates and rapid patient recovery. This book presents the distilled experience of world experts in this evolving field. Current applications are explained in detail and likely future developments are identified. Among the topics discussed are the neuroendoscopic management of hydrocephalus, a wide variety of tumors, colloid and suprasellar arachnoid cysts, Chiari malformation, and craniosynostosis; the use of neuroendoscopic techniques in improving altered CSF physiology; and the status of neuroendoscopically assisted neurosurgery. In addition, the available neuroendoscopic instruments are reviewed and the results of international trials and collaborative studies, presented. This book will fully acquaint the reader with the breadth and depth of available neuroendoscopy techniques and their impressive therapeutic potential. It should serve as the reference book on neuroendoscopy for the next 10 years.
Contents:
1. Historical Trends of Neuroendoscopic Surgery / Bernhard L. Bauer
2 The Application of Neuroendoscopic Techniques in Improving Altered CSF Physiology / Yavor P. Enchev and Shizuo Oi
3. Neuroendoscopy in Infants and the International Infant Hydrocephalus Study (IIHS) / Shlomi Constantini, Spyros Sgouros, and Abhaya V. Kulkarni
4. Controversies in the Endoscopic Management of the Various Forms of Hydrocephalus / Giuseppe Cinalli and Pietro Spennato
5. Current Status and Future Developments of Neuroendoscopic Management of Pituitary Tumours and Craniopharyngiomas / Paolo Cappabianca, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Isabella Esposito, and Felice Esposito
6. Current Status and Future Developments of Neuroendoscopically Assisted Neurosurgery / Henry W.S. Schroeder
7. Neuroendoscopic Instruments and Surgical Technique / André Grotenhuis
8. Integrating Endoscopy in the Technological Environment of the Modern Neurosurgical Operating Room / Dieter Hellwig
9. Endoscopic Treatment of Hypothalamic Hamartomas / Harold L. Rekate
10. Endoscopic Management of Intraventricular Brain Tumors in Children / Mark M. Souweidane
11. Neuroendoscopic Treatment of Colloid Cysts / Phillipe Decq
12. MRI of Patients with Hydrocephalus / Jérôme Hodel, Alain Rahmouni, and Philippe Decq
13. Neuroendoscopic Management of Intraparenchymal Lesions / Luiz Carlos de Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro, Ademir A. Lodetti, and Mário de Barros Faria
14. Neuroendoscopic Techniques in the Management of Pineal Region Tumors / Tai-Tong Wong
15. The “Complex” Management of Sylvian Fissure Arachnoid Cysts / Concezio Di Rocco, Federica Novegno, and Gianluca Trevisi
16. Neuroendoscopy in Spinal Pathology: Our Experience, New Trends, and Developments / Alvaro Cordoba
17. Endoscopy-Assisted Craniosynostosis Surgery / Erik J. van Lindert, Anke M. Ettema, and Wilfred A. Borstlap
18. Endoscopic Endonasal Repair of CSF Leak / Yaron A. Moshel, Madeleine R. Schaberg, Vijay K. Anand, and Theodore H. Schwartz
19. Man-to-Machine Interface in Neuroendoscopy: The Importance of Human Interface in the Development of Neuroendoscopy / Spyros Sgouros.