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Click on either image to visit the AuthorHouse Bookstore for the hard copy or downloadable versions of these books
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These comprehensive and reader-friendly books are intended to be a practical resource for brain surgery patients and their families, and for physicians, nursing staff and allied health professionals and students interested in learning more about the field of brain surgery ("Brain Surgery") or about brain aneurysms ("The Brain Aneurysm"). The contents of these books are particularly applicable to patients with a brain tumor, brain blood vessel disorder or brain hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury.
Topics covered in these titles include:
- Various types of brain disorders and how they present
- The available investigation and treatment options
- Details of the various investigation procedures such as CAT scanning, MRI scanning, cerebral angiography, and so forth
- Step-by-step accounts of the treatment procedures that brain surgery patients frequently encounter including open surgery or craniotomy, minor surgical procedures (such as shunts, drains, reservoirs, and stereotactic needle biopsy), radiation therapy and radiosurgery, endoscopic surgery, cerebral angiography and endovascular surgery
- Decision-making issues that neurosurgery patients and physicians should be thinking about
- The process of informed consent
- Matters regarding critically ill and comatose patients
- Wound issues and other complications of treatment
- Aspects regarding clinical follow-up and recurrent or persistent disease
- A detailed section on recovery and rehabilitation, and important tips to keep in mind during the posttreatment phase
- A variety of patient case histories, responses to key questions frequently put to neurosurgeons by their patients (FAQs), and more.
For the specific chapter headings in each of the books, click either of the above cover images, and follow the links.
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