A Practical Manual for Cisternostomy: Essentials for Young Neurosurgeons is a first-of-its-kind book on this technique. This manual describes a common lifesaving procedure in head injury. Cisternostomy is a new concept for treating traumatic brain injuries. It has been evaluated by many surgeons around the world for more than a decade and it is expected to become an accepted method of treatment. This book will serve as a practical and comprehensive guide for young neurosurgeons and all practicing neurosurgeons.

Salient Features

• The surgical technique and the physiology of cisternostomy represents a paradigm shift in neurosurgery.
• This book has elaborated on that along with various perspectives and exciting future avenues this will open.
• This book describes the history and philosophy of cisternostomy, anatomy of cisterns, indications of cisternostomy, procedure, nuances and complications, perspectives from surgeons around the world, literature evidence, and future perspectives on cisternostomy.

Contents

۱ Overview of Traumatic Brain Injury and Need of Cisternostomy in TBI
۲ History and Evolution of Cisternostomy
۳ Anatomy and Understanding of the Cisterns: Microsurgical Anatomy of the Basal Cisterns and Surgica
۴ The Physiology and Understanding of Cisternostomy
۵ Radiological Indications in Cisternostomy
۶ Cisternostomy—How I Do It
۷ Perspective, Long-Term, Experience, and Results
۷A Perspectives about Cisternostomy
۷B Perspectives of Cisternostomy from Iraq
۷C Perspective about Basal Cisternostomy
۷D Perspectives on Cisternostomy and Case Scenarios
۸ Cisternostomy in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Breakthrough for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
۹ Review of Literature on Cisternostomy
۱۰ Future Perspectives of Cisternostomy
۱۱ Cisternostomy: Complications and Its Management

Video Contents

Video 1 Cisternostomy- How I Do It
Video 2 Technique and Perspectives
Video 3 Subfrontal Cisternostomy
Video 4 Cisternostomy
Video 5 Procedure and Perspectives
Video 6 Operative Steps in Cisternostomy