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Part 1.General Overview

۱ Landmarks in the History of Neurosurgery
۲ Clinical Evaluation of the Nervous System
۳ Principles of Modern Neuroimaging
۴ Principles of Surgical Positioning

Part 2.Pediatric Neurosurgery

۵ Spinal Dysraphism and Tethered Spinal Cord
۶ Hydrocephalus in Children and Adults
۷ Developmental Anomalies: Arachnoid Cysts, Dermoids, and Epidermoids
۸ Diagnosis and Surgical Options for Craniosynostosis
۹ The Chiari Malformations and Syringohydromyelia
۱۰ Posterior Fossa and Brainstem Tumors in Children
۱۱ Causes of Nontraumatic Hemorrhagic Stroke in Children: Pediatric Moyamoya Syndrome

Part 3.Vascular Neurosurgery

۱۲ Cerebrovascular Occlusive Disease and Carotid Surgery
۱۳ Intracranial Aneurysms
۱۴ Vascular Malformations (Arteriovenous Malformations and Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas)
۱۵ Cavernous Malformations Management Strategies
۱۶ Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
۱۷ Endovascular Neurosurgery
۱۸ Cerebral Revascularization for Giant Aneurysms of the Transitional Segment of the Internal Carotid Artery

Part 4.Trauma

۱۹ Intracranial Hypertension
۲۰ Closed Head Injury
۲۱ Penetrating Brain Injury
۲۲ Traumatic Skull and Facial Fractures

Part 5.Spine

۲۳ Injuries to the Cervical Spine
۲۴ Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures
۲۵ Intradural Extramedullary and Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors.
۲۶ Treatment of Spinal Metastatic Tumors
۲۷ Spinal Cord Injury
۲۸ Syringomyelia
۲۹ Craniovertebral Junction: A Reappraisal
۳۰ Degenerative Spine Disease
۳۱ Pediatric and Adult Scoliosis
۳۲ Acute Nerve Injuries
۳۳ Entrapment Neuropathies

Part 6.Tumors

۳۴ Low-Grade and High-Grade Gliomas
۳۵ Metastatic Brain Tumors
۳۶ Meningiomas
۳۷ Tumors of the Pineal Region
۳۸ Cerebellopontine Angle Tumors
۳۹ Craniopharyngiomas and Suprasellar Tumors
۴۰ Pituitary Tumors: Diagnosis and Management
۴۱ Endoscopic Approaches to Ventricular Tumors and Colloid Cysts
۴۲ Microsurgical Approaches to the Ventricular System
۴۳ Skull Base Approaches
۴۴ Endoscopic Approaches to Skull Base Lesions, Ventricular Tumors, and Cysts

Part 7.Radiosurgery

۴۵ Application of Current Radiation Delivery Systems and Radiobiology
۴۶ Radiosurgery of Central Nervous System Tumors
۴۷ Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Vascular Malformation

Part 8.Functional/Pain

۴۸ Trigeminal Neuralgia
۴۹ Surgical Therapy for Pain
۵۰ Spasticity: Classification, Diagnosis, and Management
۵۱ Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
۵۲ Extratemporal Procedures and Hemispherectomy for Epilepsy
۵۳ Basic Principles of Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and New Frontiers