Outcome after head, neck and spinal trauma Book

SECTION I: HEAD INJURY: Assessment and prediction of outcome after head injury; Scalp injury; Skull fracture and cranial defects; Penetrating and perforating cranio trauma; Intracranial haematoma; Cerebrospinal fluid fistulae; Cranial nerve injury (I, V, IX-XII); Post-traumatic epilepsy; Motor sequelae and involuntary movement disorders; Sensory sequelae and cranial central pain; Neuropsychological indicators of psychosocial outcome; Behavioural disorders; Headache. The post-concussional syndrome; Hpothalamic and pituitary dysfunction; Post-traumatic hydrocephalus; Vascular pathology; euroradiological considerations; Recurrent cranial trauma; SECTION II: OPHTHALMOLOGY: Neuro-ophthalmological aspects of head injury; Ocular trauma; Injury to the lids and orbital contents - post-traumatic enophthalmos and diplopia; SECTION III: EAR, NOSE AND THROAT: Temporal bone trauma - auditory, vestibular and facial nerve disorders after head injury; Trauma to the external and middle ear; Nasal fractures; Laryngeal and tracheal injury; SECTION IV: MAXILLOFACIAL TRAUMA: Fractures in the maxillofacial region - a general introduction; Fractures of the mandible; Injuries to the teeth; Maxillary fractures; Frontonasal and ethmoidal fractures; Zygomatico-maxillary complex (ZMC) and orbital fractures; Injury to the temporomandibular joint; Soft tissue injuries of the face and mouth; SECTION V: SPINAL TRAUMA: Spinal cord trauma; Vertebral body fractures; Post-traumatic syringomyelia; Whiplash injury/brachalgia; Chronic low back pain; Litigation and the Cauda Equina; SECTION VI: PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY: Brachial plexus injury; Peripheral nerve injury; Traumatic disorders of the sympathetic nervous system; Appendix; Index.