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Textbook of Neurological Surgery: Principles and Practices (4 Volume Set)

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I bought the book hoping that it would be a comprehensive resource for the certification examination.

It has no doubt certain very strong areas (e.g. spine, gliomas, neurological syndromes), but other fundamental subjects in a general textbook of neurological surgery are just briefly covered (e.g. the chapter on intracranial meningiomas has 9 pages)or not covered at all (e.g. craniosynostosis).

I believe there are currently much better options in the market if you are looking for a general textbook of neurological surgery.

This was a great trail for the next edition.
this not a replacment of the Rengachary old textbook of neurosurgery
For there next edition I hope they will look at few things, like having an index on all volumes and not only volume 4???
More organization with chapters, talking only once about a subject then referring to the page number for reference
I have the book ,I stopped reading it the time i got my new youmans ........THE advice to all residents here in north America if you are looking for a textbook then you are better off with Youman's 5th edition hands down

Having owned (and thoroughly read) an earlier Youmans and Rengachary's book, I decided to purchase this text to get a different point of view on the state of the art.

The book is disappointing for many reasons, but primarily it lacks both balance and content. Some topics (cerebral arachnoid cysts) are not covered at all, and many chapters are essentially reprints of material already published elsewhere. The coverage of controversial subjects is generally one-sided and dogmatic. Everytime I looked for information I couldn't find what I wanted and had to go elsewhere.

I do not recommend this book.

This very expensive set of 4 volumes is geared toward the medical student studying neurosurgery, the junior level resident, and the novice neurosurgeon. There are over 300 chapters on topics from basic cellular neurophysiology, pediatric spine trauma, neuromuscular disorders, pathology of neurosurgical lesions, clinical pathophysiology, anesthetic and neuroICU drugs, basilar aneurysms, development and biomechanics of the spine, functional & stereotactic neurosurgery, OR electrophysiology, etc., etc., etc. The publishers were very cheap in printing these nice volumes on poor quality paper. For 850.00 USD it should have been printed on archival paper which does detract from the appeal of buying them. Some of the chapter editors are very obscure individuals who do not have any expertise in what they are writing about. Residents themselves have probably written many of the chapters under supervision from their bosses. Operative approaches and techniques are covered but you will not get the same detail as in Operative Microneurosurgery atlases currently available. The books are fun to look at if you are a neurophysiologist or clinician. The chapters on trauma are sufficient, but are not detailed like other books: Head Injury by Bullock & Reilly or Head Trauma by Miller. For research, this book will seldom be used unless you are in the clinical setting most of the time. For academic neurosurgeons, like myself, the research tools in the books are almost nonexistent. This book is meant to be a Neurosurgery Residency Program Text as a clinical reference.

i want to see the chapter bthat iI Sared in its written with dr ecklund in walter reed hospital that was about TB spondolyities and I was one of the contributer and I guess that my name is there in the contributers
my name is RA EF FARROUK AH AH HAFEZ
ACTUALLY i WOUNDER HOW i CAN GET A COPY OF THE BOOK AS CONTRIBUTER