Practical points in neurosurgery

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Preface A neurosurgeon, even with extensive experience, cannot but have some concern or become nervous when preparing for major cranial or spinal surgery. In the case of young neurosurgeons who have just started their careers as practitioners, it is very typical for them to verify their surgical procedures several times in textbooks or surgical atlases to confirm their knowledge or mitigate their anxiety. As a beginner, I read textbooks and then performed the surgery many times in my imagination before the real procedure. In my dreams on the night before surgery, a smiling patient would sometimes appear after a successful operation, or alterna-tively, after an unsatisfactory operation, I presented a miserable figure, so ashamed that I felt like crawling into a mouse hole. Medical training is often referred to as an apprenticeship. Although there may be no problem understanding a disease or mastering a surgical procedure from a textbook or verbal explanation, the performance of even a very simple operation can be extremely daunting. For this reason, intern and resident education systems have been developed and everything involved in surgery must be learned the hard way, by experiencing it in person. Although many comprehensive books have been published and our thirst for knowledge or indirect experience has thus been assuaged in recent times, it is not easy to find textbooks that describe the critical scenes of an operation or pinpoint the most important surgical techniques that would be observed during training in an apprenticeship. This book has been written to facilitate the treatment of patients by providing residents, novice neurosurgeons, or neurosurgeons with little experience, who are preparing for an operation, an opportunity to directly experience an operation with their own eyes through animated video images, and thereby increase their self-confidence for the actual operation. We have collected about 100 typical cases in the areas frequently encountered in the field of neurosurgery, and have ex-plained them in easily understood terms. We have also tried to assist in the actual performance of these operations by itemizing the key points of each surgical procedure in each case. In this volume, the domain of all neurosurgical disorders has been divided into five parts: cerebrovascular diseases, brain tumors, spinal diseases, stereotactic and functional procedures, and pediatric neurosurgery. This division is based on the detailed major areas of neurosurgery and is intended to provide convenient access to the relevant cases for the reader. The introduction to each case describes the general information on the selected case, and the main text introduces the techniques used and experienced by the authors as the classi-cal method for treating the disease in question. Of these treatment modalities, cra-niotomy is usually selected, but minimally invasive treatment methods, including endoscopic surgery, endovascular surgery, or radiosurgery, have also been intro-duced in line with recent trends in neurosurgery. At the end of each section, the particular details that require attention during the operation are summarized as practical points to assist readers to build up treatment concepts. More surgical photos or images, rather than explanations, have been included so that the operat-ing procedures can be easily understood. Animations have been produced that enhance the important images, from pre-operational evaluations to the major scenes of an operation. Because the length of each animation is limited to a few minutes, owing to the capacity limitations of the storage material, the full processes of each operation cannot be shown; however, the essential elements are included. The authors of this book are neurosurgeons at the Seoul National University College of Medicine and have over 20 years of experience in neurosurgery. I believe that the living knowledge flowing from their long experience is enough to inspire many young ne…

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