This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Robert W Rand, MD, PhD. Price, $25. Pp 224. CV Mosby Co, 3207 Washington Blvd, St. Louis 63103,1969.

J. Lawrence Pool, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1970;22(3):288.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

This is an excellent up-to-the-minute book describing the technical details of the relatively new field of microneurosurgery. In addition there are two outstanding chapters on microneurosurgical anatomy, one by Rand and Hoshek, and another by Rhoton, with splendid microphotographs and diagrams that portray the intricate anatomy of the trigeminal, facial, eighth, and some of the other cranial nerves in great detail. These magnification studies are of particular importance because they have contributed enormously to current improvements in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, acoustic neurinomas, and hemifacial spasm by microsurgery.

Dr. Rand, the principle author and a well-known pioneer in microneurosurgery, has written an especially rewarding chapter on acoustic neurinomas. Additional material by Dr. Rand and others who have contributed to this monograph include chapters on audiologic and neuroradiologic problems of cerebellopontine angle tumors and on microsurgery as used in the transsphenoidal removal of pituitary tumors, trigeminal rhizotomy, the treatment of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?