Meningiomas: Expert Consult - Online and Print Book

Meningiomas, by M. Necmettin Pamir, MD, Peter M. Black, MD, PhD, and Rudolf Fahlbusch, MD, presents current and comprehensive guidance on this most common, yet clinically challenging type of brain tumor. Written and edited by the world’s most prominent brain tumor neurosurgeons, it helps you to not only determine the type and location of the tumor, but also the most ideal surgical approach to provide your patients with the best outcomes. An extensive collection of surgical photographs covers unique and original cases, while discussions of pre-surgical techniques and approaches emphasize decision making with the help of all imaging modalities and analysis of symptoms and patient history. Expert Consult functionality enhances your reference power with convenient online access to the complete text and illustrations from the book, along with videos that depict surgical techniques in real time.

• Provides access to the complete text online—fully searchable, along with all of the illustrations downloadable for your personal presentations, and real-time surgical videos covering microscopic extended endonasal approach to suprasellar meningioma, and more, at expertconsult.com.

• Covers today’s full range of management methods, including adjuvant therapies, providing you with the best strategies for obtaining optimal outcomes.

• Features the work of the world’s most prominent brain tumor neurosurgeons—a completely international authorship—bringing you the best procedures globally.

• Offers an in-depth section on surgical methods and approaches based upon tumor location, to help you in the decision-making process.

• Includes coverage of spinal meningiomas including pre-diagnosis symptoms and outcomes.

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Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Celso Agner, MD, MSc(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description:Meningiomas are the most common primary tumors of the central nervous system. Despite their frequency, management decisions can be challenging. This book reflects the most recent advances in neurosurgery for the treatment of meningiomas.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide a comprehensive guide to the management of CNS meningiomas.
Audience:Neurosurgeons, neurologists, radiologists, skull base surgeons, anesthesiologists, and neuro-oncologists are the main audience for this book. The editors are accomplished neurosurgeons and well-suited to provide detailed information in this area.
Features:Over 100 authors contribute the 64 chapters in this book. The authors provide a comprehensive guide to the management of meningiomas, covering history, microsurgical anatomy, angiographic results and importance, and treatment modalities. In the angiographic section, the authors describe in detail all current embolization modalities as well as when not to do them, such as when surgery alone may be able to address hypervascularity from the very beginning. Surgery is described in the utmost detail, including patient positioning, approaches, intra-operative monitoring, and neuronavigation techniques in current use. The most unique aspect of this book is the web-based searchable text, which presents case videos and allows interested readers to further their understanding of specific topics.
Assessment:This is an unparalleled, excellent contribution to the field. It should be part of major neuroscience libraries for its interspecialty translational focus.