COVER FRONT -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Section 1 Clinical evidence -- Chapter 1 Clinical evidence -- Section 2 Spinal neurosurgery -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 Lumbar spondylolisthesis -- Chapter 3 Cervical spondylotic myelopathy -- Chapter 4 Lumbar fusion for low back pain without neurologic symptoms or spinal deformity -- Chapter 5 Thoracolumbar spine fractures -- Chapter 6 Transpedicular instrumentation for lumbar fusion -- Chapter 7 Graft extenders in spinal surgery -- Chapter 8 Orthoses -- Chapter 9 Osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures -- Chapter 10 Metastatic tumors of the spine -- Chapter 11 Motion-preservation strategies for the cervical spine -- Section 3 Functional neurosurgery -- Introduction -- Chapter 12 Temporal lobectomy for mesial temporal sclerosis -- Chapter 13 Surgical outcomes in non-lesional epilepsy -- Chapter 14 Neuromodulation procedures for movement disorders -- Chapter 15 Neuromodulation procedures for medical and psychiatric conditions -- Chapter 16 Stimulation of the central nervous system for chronic pain -- Section 4 Tumors -- Introduction -- Chapter 17 Brain metastases -- Chapter 18 Pituitary tumors -- Chapter 19 Surgery for glioblastoma -- Chapter 20 Stereotactic radiosurgery versus microsurgical resection for patients with vestibular schwannomas -- Chapter 21 Surgical resection of low-grade gliomas -- Section 5 Pediatric neurosurgery -- Introduction -- Chapter 22 Chiari I malformation in children -- Chapter 23 Surgical treatment of hydrocephalus in children -- Chapter 24 Myelomeningocele -- Chapter 25 Medulloblastoma -- Section 6 Vascular neurosurgery -- Introduction -- Chapter 26 Unruptured cerebral aneurysms: observe, clip, or coil? -- Chapter 27 Ruptured cerebral aneurysms: clip or coil?.

Chapter 28 Intracranial arteriovenous malformations: epidemiology, natural history, and management -- Chapter 29 Extracranial carotid artery stenosis -- Chapter 30 Symptomatic intracranial arterial disease: medical therapy, stent, or bypass? -- Chapter 31 Cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Chapter 32 Deep intracranial hemorrhage -- Section 7 Neurotrauma -- Introduction -- Chapter 33 Use of intracranial pressure and ventriculostomy in traumatic brain injury -- Chapter 34 The role of decompressive hemicraniectomy in traumatic brain injury -- Chapter 35 Timing of surgery for spinal cord injury -- COVER BACK.