Andres Lozano – Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Автор: Andres Lozano
Название книги: Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Радиохирургия
Страницы: 3247
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This volume covers stereotactic principles and functional stereotaxis. Amongst the stereotactic principles are discussions of frame-based and frameless systems of stereotaxis, image guidance stereotaxis, atlases and the technical aspects of radiosurgery. Within functional neurosurgery, disorders covered include the diagnosis and management of pain, epilepsy, movement disorders and the rediscovered field of surgery for psychiatric disorders

This second edition of the Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery appears just 11 years
after the first.
The first edition of the Textbook marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of human stereotactic
neurosurgery. After an initial period of rapid growth, the field became quiescent in the 1960s when
treatment of Parkinson’s disease migrated from stereotactic surgery to medication, primarily L-dopa.
When it became apparent that L-dopa was not the final answer to the management of Parkinson’S
disease, human stereotaxis had a rebirth, and the first edition followed a few years later. Many patients
returned once again to surgical management in the early 1990s, so many neurosurgeons returned to the
fields of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. In the meantime, computer science and imaging
techniques had advanced to foster the development of frameless image guided surgery, as well as
stereotactic radiosurgery. Consequently, many neurosurgeons were becoming involved with stereotactic
surgery, either returning to the field or being introduced to it for the first time. Both groups needed
a comprehensive review of the then-current state of the field which was provided by the first edition of
the Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
During the past 11 years there have been additional significant advances in this field. Computers
have advanced to the point where exotic complex surgical programs have become commonplace and
computers have become commonly used in the operating room, both for image guidance and
physiological verification of targets. Image guided surgery is being used by most neurosurgeons,
many of whom may not have had a prior background in stereotactic surgery. Deep brain stimulation
for the treatment of motor disorders has become technically feasible and is commonly practiced at
many stereotactic centers, using some techniques that were still under development a decade ago and
technically advanced stimulating devices. Radiosurgical techniques involve more complex dosimetry
than was available earlier, again because of advances in computer technology. Many new possibilities
are being opened for both neurosurgical guidance and functional surgery involving targets that had not
previously been recognized.
These advances have proceeded so rapidly and broadly across several scientific fields that we have a
need for a new edition of the Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. It is meant to provide
a broad background for neurosurgeons, neurologists, and radiation oncologists, radiation physicists,
and other scientists in the ever expanding fields of stereotactic neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery,
and stereotactic radiosurgery. These fields have become so broad that no other publication covers the
information necessary for all those specialists in a single reference source. This book will provide an
update on the significant advances, information, and knowledge that have developed during this past
decade has and have been scattered through the literature of these disparate specialties.
The first edition was edited by Philip L. Gildenberg and Ronald Tasker. Both those stereotactic
neurosurgeons retired from active clinical practice in the past 10 years, so they recruited Andres Lozano
to be the primary editor. They felt that he brings to this position a unique combination of clinical expertise, extensive knowledge of background laboratory information, a record of providing innovation
to functional neurosurgery, and has provided leadership for a new generation of stereotactic
neurosurgeons. The editors wish to thankMcGraw-Hill, who published the first edition, for relinquishing
the copyright to Dr. Gildenberg, which opened the door for Springer to publish the second edition.
The difference in the editorial process between the first edition and the second edition in some
ways reflects the development of computers during that time, and consequently the advances in the
fields of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. The authors who contributed to the first edition sent
hard copy printed manuscripts to the editors who would then read for content and copy edit, a timeconsuming
and inefficient process.Manuscripts were then mailed back to the authors for final approval
and/or correction and sent back to the Editors, possibly several times, who relayed them to the
publisher when they were perfected. All manuscript preparation and submission for the second edition
were done electronically, so no paper changed hands, which sometimes introduced new complexities,
but ultimately proved more efficient, not to mention friendly to the environment. It is noteworthy that
between the time of the first edition and the second edition, the operating room also became digitized,
with consequent improvement in the display of diagnostic studies, processing information from those
studies, and integrating that information into the surgical plan.
The editors thank Garbiele Schro¨der and Stephanie Benko of Springer, who made this Textbook
possible. The editors especially wish to thank Andrew Spencer and his staff at Springer, who served as
the publisher’s representative to this project and maintained the flow of digital information between
authors, editors and publisher.
The editors also wish to thank Joan Richardson, who served as a liaison between the authors,
editors, and publisher’s staff, and provided an accurate update on the progress and problems of each
chapter and author. She managed the organization of 195 manuscripts with over 250 authors, with
occasional changes in authors or topics, to facilitate communication between the editors and authors