Fundamentals of Operative Techniques in Neurosurgery

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Summary: Lousy book
Review: This book is neither detail enough to be used as a revision book nor small enough to be used daily. A big waste of time and money! Don't ever buy it.

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Summary: The ideal companion of the Greenberg's handbook
Review: This is an handbook of operative neurosurgical techniques. There are a lot of informations about the operating room supplies, the surgical instruments and equipment.
Are also present the major neurosurgical procedures, even if someone is not so common in the daily practice (p.e. Dolenc approach), and, there are not information about the posterior fossa approach(there is just the lateral and the supracerebellar approaches but no mention about the IV ventricle approach or something about the IV° ventricle or cerebellar tumors).
Maybe it also lack of figures and illustrations. There are not drawings for the surgical position and the Instrument Trays chapter are to much rich of informations (it, in my opinion could be more useful for a nurse).
I have presented this book to a couple of Collegues that live and work in a country in which the operating rooms supplies and the surgical equipment are not like in the USA or the Europe; so, it could be useful to bold the "essential" instruments or supplies for those who live and work in other countries.
I hope that the next edition will be more complete, and i will buy it again for sure.
Massimiliano Sanzo M.D., Neurosurgeon