Spinal Meningiomas

✍ Scribed by Arnaldo Pansini MD, Fulvio Lo Re MD, Piero Conti MD, Renato Conti MD, Enrico Montali MD, Giovanni De Luca MD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since Harvey Cushing's extensive study on brain meningiomas no similar study has been conducted on spinal cord meningiomas. The high scientific value of this book is based on the careful elaboration of data from patients affected by spinal meningiomas who have been examined and operated on over the last 33 years (1962-1995) at the Neurosurgical School of the University of Florence, Italy. The main focus of this study was on the anatomic and clinical relationship that enabled early diagnosis of spinal meningiomas. More over this book emphasizes the interaction between neurology and neuroradiology in the form of "dynamic neurology". Myeloradiculographic findings are described together with those using more recent techniques such as CT and MRI.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages II-VIII
General Considerations....Pages 1-2
Historical Origins of Embryology....Pages 3-5
Genetics....Pages 7-8
Vascularization of the Spinal Cord and Variations in Myelitic Blood Flow....Pages 9-13
Case Reports....Pages 15-22
Clinical Symptoms....Pages 23-67
Neurophysiopathology....Pages 69-81
Neuroradiology....Pages 83-145
Surgical Techniques....Pages 147-191
Other Anatomical-Clinical Observations....Pages 193-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-242

✦ Subjects

Neurosurgery; Pathology; Neuroradiology