Challenging Concepts in Neurosurgery Cases with Expert Commentary

by Bhatia, Robin; Sabin, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780199656400
• ISBN10: 0199656401
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-07-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Robin Bhatia, Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK,Ian Sabin, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK

Robin Bhatia is a Consultant Spinal Neurosurgeon working in The Great Western Hospital and Oxford University Hospital. He started to write and edit this book when he was an ST7 neurosurgical trainee in the London Deanery. His clinical practice is now exclusively spinal surgery, but his doctorate research investigated traumatic brain injury.


Ian Sabin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at St Barts and the Royal London NHS Trust and at The Wellington Hospital. He is Director of the London Gamma Knife Centre at St Barts Hospital and Neurosurgical Tutor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His clinical interests include Skull Base Surgery (Acoustic Neuromas, Pituitary Tumours, and Trigeminal Neuralgia), Neuro-Oncology, Cervical Spine Surgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. He also holds a research interest in endoscopic minimally invasive neurosurgery.

Table of Contents

1. The management of chronic subdural haematoma, Nick Borg, Angelos G. Kolias, Thomas Santarius and Peter J. Hutchinson
2. Glioblastoma Multiforme, Mohammed Awad and Kevin O'Neill
3. Spondylolisthesis, Eoin Fenton and Ciaran Bolger
4. Intramedullary spinal cord tumour, Ruth-Mary deSouza and David Choi
5. Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Victoria Wykes, Anna Miserocchi and Andrew McEvoy
6. Management of Lumbosacral Lipoma in Childhood, Martin M. Tisdall, Greg James and Dominic N. P. Thompson
7. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, David Sayer and Raghu Vindindlacheruvu
8. Colloid cyst of the third ventricle, Robin Bhatia and Ian Sabin
9. Bilateral Vestibular Schwannomas: the challenge of Neurofibromatosis Type II, Patrick Grover and Robert Bradford
10. Multimodality Monitoring In Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Adel Helmy and Peter J. Hutchinson
11. Intracranial Abscess, Ciaran Scott Hill and George Samandouras
12. Deep Brain Stimulation for Debilitating Parkinson's Disease, Jonathan A. Hyam, Alexander L. Green and Tipu Z. Aziz
13. Endoscopic resection of a growth hormone-secreting pituitary macroadenoma, Alessandro Paluzzi and Paul Gardner
14. Trigeminal neuralgia, Isaac Phang and Nigel Suttner
15. Cerebral metastasis, Melissa C. Werndle and Henry Marsh
16. The surgical management of the rheumatoid spine, Robin Bhatia and Adrian Casey
17. Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy, Ellie Broughton and Nick Haden
18. Brainstem cavernous malformation, Harith Akram and Mary Murphy
19. Peripheral Nerve Injury, Sophie J. Camp and Rolfe Birch
20. Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage, Peter Bodkin and Patrick Statham
21. Low Grade Glioma, Deepti Bhargava and Michael D. Jenkinson
22. Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation, Jinendra Ekanayake and Neil Kitchen