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Summary: A Must But....
Review: As a practitioner of Neurosurgery this book provides a very good fast review of fundamental facts. I have been bought this book since the first ed. Very useful until fifth edition.
Unfortunately I have a great but for this last edition:
My HANDBOOK OF NEUROSURGERY bought with the help of Amazon has not the page 257, instead page 157 is displayed.
For an editorial house as Thieme this is a great failure!
The Author does not have a reposition for page 257 in his web page www.grgraphics.com.My advice is, look for another option until a pristine new edition of this book.
Rating: 
Summary: A Classic Work.
Review: Dr. Greenberg has written a neurosurgical indispensable. May it continue to merit the thanks of the neurosurgical resident in years to come.
Rating:
Summary: Concise and practical
Review: Greenberg's "Handbook of Neurosurgery" is a well writen, concise and practical reference manual for the use of the non-neurosurgeon who has to deal with neurosurgical patients and their unique problems. As a part of my postgraduate trainig I worked in a Neurotrauma ward, both with brain injured and spinal injured patients. So, my knowledge of Neurosurgery was lacking. However, as I purchased this book I became more familiar with the general principles and practice of Neurosurgery. However lacking in regard to Neuroimaging and surgical techniques, Greenberg's "Handbook of Neurosurgery" provides excelent chapters of neurointensive care, drug use, dosages and side effects, clinical tests of value, as well as comprehensive analysis of the diseases and disease processes encountered.
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Summary: need a neurosurgeon
Review: Hi, I got hurt two years ago by a police officer, ive had two back surgies and one knee surgey, my neurosurgeon said he didnt get paid enough money to go to court for me, so im going to omaha,nebraska for the time being. I have a wife and two kids, a need a neurosurgeon that will go to court for me, im on disability now and fight for my health every day, if anybody can help me and my family out it would be nice, we are close to omaha,nebraska and siouxcity,iowa let us know if there is a doctor out there that will still help, this is our last resort, thank you danny, julee, danny jr, ashton pruett
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Summary: Absolute MUST for students interested in neurosurgery!!!
Review: I bought this book and used it religiously during my neurosurgery subinternships. It is an absolute must. It's certainly a big pocketbook, but it fits my coat pockets just fine! Laminate the covers and tape the inside covers to the first page or else the cover will rip off the spine of the book! This book is very very simplified, as well it should be. It is meant to be used by junior residents! It covers everything I needed to know as a fourth year medical student, but is probably insuffient for a resident beyond the PGY2 year (which is the first year of neurosurgery). It covers the background basic science and anatomy, includes pharmacology and side effects/contraindications, radiographic findings of neuropathologies, treatment options, and when appropriate, it even gives you recommendations on orders to be written! While on call, my resident asked me to see a subarachnoid bleed patient. I drew a blank, and consulted my Greenberg....asked all the right questions of the patient, arranged a nice quiet room, head of bed up 30 degrees, nifedipine, and consulted IR for an angio, wrote up all the orders and then paged my resident, who was delighted that everything was done and only needed to sign the orders! Thanks GREENBERG!!! And pimp question? Yep, it's great for that too! We scheduled a Meckel's cave dissection tomorrow, so I read about the anatomical layout of the cavernous sinus tonight. Naturally the chief resident pimps me (while waiting for the path frozen to come back) about the anatomical structure of the cavernous sinus, from lateral to medial, superior to inferior...I knocked it out in perfect symphony because Greenberg's had a picture of the structures on page 109! The book covers the breadth of neurosurgery very well indeed. From Brain Trauma (a fantastic must read to review EVDs ICP and CPP issues) to spine trauma and back pain (a must read BEFORE you go to your chairman's clinics). It has a great chapter called Operations and Procedure, which literally walks you through an EVD (External Ventricular Drain) placement! The back inside cover has a great summary of dermatomes and myotomes (great for spine clinic!) as well as tables of summaries of grading systems (Hunt and Hess, Fisher, House Brackman, Spetzler Martin and of course, Glasgow Coma) It even has stuff that you didn't know exists, like clival chordomas (what the heck?) and a great chapter on pediatric neurosurgery (aka Shuntology 101). The chapters can be quite long (100 pages on tumors alone), and a 900 page book can be intimidating for a 3rd year student about to enter their 4th year! Buy this book NOW (in first, second or third year of medical school, I bought mine in second year) and read the following chapters for a primer on HIGH YIELD NEUROSURGERY: Chapter 11 Spine and spinal cord (60-80%) of OR time and clinic times will be spine!
Chapter 24 Head Trauma: YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS CHAPTER WELL!!! Lots of pimp question will come from this chapter during the daily ICU rounds! Discussions include ICP management, I gurantee you WILL see patients with ICP problems....YOU MUST MUST UNDERSTAND THIS CHAPTER WELL!!!
Chapter 25: Spine injury, a high yield chapter that's very well laid out, Key teaching points: know when to operate and when to simply immobilize and oh yeah, high dose steroids for spinal cord injury less than 8 hours old.
Chapter 27: Subarachnoid Bleed, high yield, know the H/H grades as well as the Fisher grades. Know when to operate and how to manage vasospasm...lots of pimp questions come from this topic!
Chapter 8 Hydrocephalus: Know your shunts, know them well! This is a great book. Yes, you'll answer your pimp questions well and impress your attendings, but more importantly when you're alone on the floor and need an answer, you can refer to this book quickly before paging your resident and looking like an incompetent sub-i. It's a great FIRST step towards a neurosurgical career. Read this book early and read it often! If you are on a sub-I, and you don't know neurosurgery inside-out, then you BETTER have this book in your white coat pockets when you're rounding! A caveat, the 5th edition did away with many operative techniques (which medical students don't need to know anyway) and the back cover recommends Fundamentals of Operative Neurosurgery by Connolly, Choudri and Huang....Do not buy that book, it's $100 and is little more than a list of instrumentations and a brief description of some neurosurgical cases...not a useful book at all! Real operative texts are monster 3 volume sets, you cannot learn operative techniques from a little pocket book! Ask your residents for recommendations on operative texts (I like Apuzzo's Brain Surgery for cranial procedures).
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Summary: Absolute MUST for students interested in neurosurgery!!!
Review: I bought this book and used it religiously during my neurosurgery subinternships. It is an absolute must. It's certainly a big pocketbook, but it fits my coat pockets just fine! Laminate the covers and tape the inside covers to the first page or else the cover will rip off the spine of the book! This book is very very simplified, as well it should be. It is meant to be used by junior residents! It covers everything I needed to know as a fourth year medical student, but is probably insuffient for a resident beyond the PGY2 year (which is the first year of neurosurgery). It covers the background basic science and anatomy, includes pharmacology and side effects/contraindications, radiographic findings of neuropathologies, treatment options, and when appropriate, it even gives you recommendations on orders to be written! While on call, my resident asked me to see a subarachnoid bleed patient. I drew a blank, and consulted my Greenberg....asked all the right questions of the patient, arranged a nice quiet room, head of bed up 30 degrees, nifedipine, and consulted IR for an angio, wrote up all the orders and then paged my resident, who was delighted that everything was done and only needed to sign the orders! Thanks GREENBERG!!! And pimp question? Yep, it's great for that too! We scheduled a Meckel's cave dissection tomorrow, so I read about the anatomical layout of the cavernous sinus tonight. Naturally the chief resident pimps me (while waiting for the path frozen to come back) about the anatomical structure of the cavernous sinus, from lateral to medial, superior to inferior...I knocked it out in perfect symphony because Greenberg's had a picture of the structures on page 109! The book covers the breadth of neurosurgery very well indeed. From Brain Trauma (a fantastic must read to review EVDs ICP and CPP issues) to spine trauma and back pain (a must read BEFORE you go to your chairman's clinics). It has a great chapter called Operations and Procedure, which literally walks you through an EVD (External Ventricular Drain) placement! The back inside cover has a great summary of dermatomes and myotomes (great for spine clinic!) as well as tables of summaries of grading systems (Hunt and Hess, Fisher, House Brackman, Spetzler Martin and of course, Glasgow Coma) It even has stuff that you didn't know exists, like clival chordomas (what the heck?) and a great chapter on pediatric neurosurgery (aka Shuntology 101). The chapters can be quite long (100 pages on tumors alone), and a 900 page book can be intimidating for a 3rd year student about to enter their 4th year! Buy this book NOW (in first, second or third year of medical school, I bought mine in second year) and read the following chapters for a primer on HIGH YIELD NEUROSURGERY: Chapter 11 Spine and spinal cord (60-80%) of OR time and clinic times will be spine!
Chapter 24 Head Trauma: YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS CHAPTER WELL!!! Lots of pimp question will come from this chapter during the daily ICU rounds! Discussions include ICP management, I gurantee you WILL see patients with ICP problems....YOU MUST MUST UNDERSTAND THIS CHAPTER WELL!!!
Chapter 25: Spine injury, a high yield chapter that's very well laid out, Key teaching points: know when to operate and when to simply immobilize and oh yeah, high dose steroids for spinal cord injury less than 8 hours old.
Chapter 27: Subarachnoid Bleed, high yield, know the H/H grades as well as the Fisher grades. Know when to operate and how to manage vasospasm...lots of pimp questions come from this topic!
Chapter 8 Hydrocephalus: Know your shunts, know them well! This is a great book. Yes, you'll answer your pimp questions well and impress your attendings, but more importantly when you're alone on the floor and need an answer, you can refer to this book quickly before paging your resident and looking like an incompetent sub-i. It's a great FIRST step towards a neurosurgical career. Read this book early and read it often! If you are on a sub-I, and you don't know neurosurgery inside-out, then you BETTER have this book in your white coat pockets when you're rounding! A caveat, the 5th edition did away with many operative techniques (which medical students don't need to know anyway) and the back cover recommends Fundamentals of Operative Neurosurgery by Connolly, Choudri and Huang....Do not buy that book, it's $100 and is little more than a list of instrumentations and a brief description of some neurosurgical cases...not a useful book at all! Real operative texts are monster 3 volume sets, you cannot learn operative techniques from a little pocket book! Ask your residents for recommendations on operative texts (I like Apuzzo's Brain Surgery for cranial procedures).
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Summary: About Wong Hong's comment..
Review: I disagree. There are TOO many handbooks out there which simply aren't worth the paper their published on because they aren't detailed enough. Writing a handbook is no excuse not to be thorough - it is a reason to be direct. I'd rather pocket a good handbook that is a little thicker, than a slim volume that simply is not comprehensive enough about its subject matter.
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Summary: Most useful handbook on the market
Review: I have used this Handbook of Neurosurgery since its inception over 10 years ago. In my residency training program, it is referred to as the "Bible" of Neurosurgery. The current edition continues the trend of excellence set by its predecessors. Broad in scope and utility, this single reference is all any resident needs to survive an on-call night in any neurosurgery residency training program. The current edition is a single volume (the edition previous to this one was a two-volume set, much to the dismay of myself and fellow residents). The only negative comment that I can make is that as the book tries to encompass more and more information, it has grown larger and more unwieldy. The first and second editions could be placed into the pocket of a lab coat; this current edition's size prevents it from being easily carried on the wards. Still, overall it is the most useful single text that any student or resident of neurosurgery could purchase, and at[the price] it is a relative BARGAIN in comparison to the other textbooks of Neurosurgery that cost upwards of $200.
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Summary: Most useful handbook on the market
Review: I have used this Handbook of Neurosurgery since its inception over 10 years ago. In my residency training program, it is referred to as the "Bible" of Neurosurgery. The current edition continues the trend of excellence set by its predecessors. Broad in scope and utility, this single reference is all any resident needs to survive an on-call night in any neurosurgery residency training program. The current edition is a single volume (the edition previous to this one was a two-volume set, much to the dismay of myself and fellow residents). The only negative comment that I can make is that as the book tries to encompass more and more information, it has grown larger and more unwieldy. The first and second editions could be placed into the pocket of a lab coat; this current edition's size prevents it from being easily carried on the wards. Still, overall it is the most useful single text that any student or resident of neurosurgery could purchase, and at[the price] it is a relative BARGAIN in comparison to the other textbooks of Neurosurgery that cost upwards of $200.
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Summary: Remarkably useful
Review: The kind of book you can allways turn to for a quick and easy review of the matter you are dealing with. Pocket size and amazingly complete. A great help for neurosurgery students and residents.
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