Abundantly illustrated with more than 1,850 figures, this book provides step-by-step intraoperative photographs to describe surgical strategies. It also offers techniques and gives detailed statistical analyses on postoperative outcomes.

This comprehensive monograph describes the experience gained through the treatment of patients with spinal tumors over a 25-year period. It covers clinical presentations and neuroradiological features of intramedullary, extramedullary, and extradural spinal tumors. Coverage provides step-by-step intraoperative photographs to describe surgical strategies. In addition, the book offers techniques and gives detailed statistical analyses on postoperative outcomes by focusing on postoperative complications as well as short-term and long-term results. Abundantly illustrated with more than 1,850 figures,

this essential reference will be of great interest to neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuroradiologists, neuromolecular biologists, neurophysiotherapists and occupational therapists.

Authoritative reference covering all tumor entities of the spine and spinal cord Step-by-step illustrations of surgical procedures Detailed statistical evaluations for every tumor pathology Abundantly illustrated with 1862 figures Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Jörg Klekamp studied medicine at the Hannover Medical School in Germany. After a postdoctoral research project on human brain development in the Department of Neuropathology at Sydney University, Australia, he started his neurosurgical training under supervision of Prof. Madjid Samii in Hannover, Germany. He devoted his neurosurgical career to spinal cord pathologies and has published several articles in respected international peer review journals on syringomyelia, spinal tumors and malformations of the craniocervical junction and spinal canal over the past 30 years. He is the author of monographs on syringomyelia and spinal tumors and provided book chapters for german as well as international text books on these topics.

Inhalt
History.- Anatomy.- Intramedullary Tumors.- Extramedullary Tumors.- Epidural Tumors.