Functional neurosurgery focuses on improving the lives of patients with epilepsy, movement disorders, pain, and psychiatric illnesses. In recent years, approaches ranging from open surgery to minimally invasive techniques have been leveraged to improve daily functioning and quality of life in people struggling with painful, highly disruptive, and/or treatment-resistant symptoms. These approaches focus on reducing or eliminating seizures, alleviating pain, decreasing abnormal movements or lessening debilitating symptoms associated with specific psychiatric disorders.

Neurosurgical Operative Atlas: Functional Neurosurgery, Third Edition, by renowned functional neurosurgeons Robert Gross, Nicholas Boulis, and esteemed contributors reflects the latest advances in functional and stereotactic neurosurgical approaches. The entire atlas has been streamlined and updated with new content, including the use of stereotactic surgery to treat obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, and major depression.

Key Highlights

• A full spectrum of epilepsy treatment techniques, including intracranial monitoring with stereo-electroencephalography, selective amygdalohippocampectomy, MRI-guided stereotactic laser ablation, vagus nerve stimulation, and more
• Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia, epilepsy and medically intractable pain syndromes, with in-depth implantation guidance
• The use of neurosurgical and interventional techniques to treat pain including percutaneous ablation, peripheral nerve stimulation, spinal cord and motor cortex stimulators, and pumps
• More than 300 high quality color illustrations detail anatomy and surgical procedures

This is the ultimate guide on functional neurosurgery for managing a wide range of incapacitating neurological conditions. Neurosurgical residents, fellows, and veteran neurosurgeons specializing in this rapidly evolving subspecialty will find this state-of-the-art book invaluable — reading it cover to cover will ultimately benefit patients.

Contents

۱. Intracranial Monitoring Techniques
۲. The Stereoelectroencephalography Technique and Methodology
۳. Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal Lobe
۴. Tailored and Standard Temporal Lobectomy
۵. Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy
۶. Surgical Treatment of Extratemporal Epilepsy
۷. Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Guided Stereotactic Laser Ablation for Epilepsy
۸. Hypothalamic Hamartomas
۹. Anatomic Hemispherectomy
۱۰. Peri-insular Hemispherotomy
۱۱. Multiple Subpial Transections and Multiple Hippocampal Transections for Epilepsy in Eloquent Brain Areas
۱۲. Technical Aspects of Callosotomy
۱۳. Responsive Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Epilepsy
۱۴. Deep Brain Stimulation of Anterior Thalamic Nuclei for Epilepsy
۱۵. Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Intractable Epilepsy
۱۶. Frame-Based Stereotactic DBS Implantation of Vim for Essential Tremor and Other Cerebellar Outflow Tremors
۱۷. Chronic Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease
۱۸. Frame-Based Globus Pallidus Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease or Dystonia
۱۹. Interventional MRI–Guided Deep Brain Stimulator Implantation
۲۰. Frameless DBS Implantation with the O-Arm
۲۱. DBS Implantation with 3D-Printed Stereotactic Platforms and the Cranial Vault Probabilistic Atlas
۲۲. Frameless and Frame-Based Lead Implantation in Computed Tomography Scanner
۲۳. Ablative Procedures for Movement Disorders: Pallidotomy
۲۴. Stereotactic Surgery for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Tourette Syndrome
۲۵. Stereotactic Surgery for Depression
۲۶. Pediatric Functional Neurosurgery
۲۷. Radiosurgery for Functional Neurosurgical Procedures
۲۸. MVD and Open Rhizotomy for Cranial Neuralgias
۲۹. Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia
۳۰. Percutaneous Ablative Treatment of Neuropathic Facial Pain
۳۱. Dorsal Root Entry Zone: Spinal Cord
۳۲. Dorsal Root Entry Zone: Nucleus Caudalis
۳۳. Open Surgical and Percutaneous Radiofrequency Cordotomy
۳۴. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Pain Relief: Primer on Occipital Nerve Stimulation
۳۵. Spinal Nerve Root and Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation
۳۶. Neurosurgical Interventions for Neuropathic Craniofacial Pain
۳۷. Implantation of a Spinal Cord Stimulator for Pain Relief
۳۸. Motor Cortex Stimulation for the Treatment of Noncancer Chronic Pain
۳۹. Deep Brain Stimulation for Medically Intractable Pain Syndromes
۴۰. Sympathectomy
۴۱. Interventional Pain Management Techniques for Low Back Pain
۴۲. Pumps for Pain and Spasticity
۴۳. Treatment of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus with Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Implantation44. Trigeminal Ganglion Stimulation