Evidence for Neurosurgery

Chapter 1. Evidence in Neurosurgery.- Chapter 2. The value of decompressive craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury.- Chapter 3. Cranioplasty: Does timing have any effect on the degree of neurological recovery or the complication rate?.- Chapter 4. Age: a criterion to offer surgical treatment as a cytoreductive tool for malignant primary brain tumour?.- Chapter 5.  A restriction for the surgical or endovascular treatment of a ruptured aneurysm in the elderly.- Chapter 6. Subarachnoid hemorrhage due to ruptured intracranial aneurysm: Clipping or coiling.- Chapter 7. Subarachnoid hemorrhage due to ruptured intracranial aneurysms: the scientific base for flow diverters.- Chapter 8. Controversies in deep brain stimulation surgery: micro-electrode recordings.- Chapter 9. Chiari Malformation: Posterior Fossa Decompression With or Without Duraplasty?.- Chapter 10. Craniosynostosis: endoscopically versus open treatment.- Chapter 11. Posterior Decompression for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: laminectomy, laminectomy and fusion or laminoplasty.- Chapter 12. Early Versus Delayed Surgery for Cervical Disc Herniation.- Chapter 13. The oblique corpectomy, forgotten but an effective procedure? A systematic review.- Chapter 14. Cervical arthroplasty: the evidence.-  Chapter 15. Cauda Equina Syndrome due to ruptured lumbar intervertebral disc: optimal timing for surgery.- Chapter 16. The use of minimal invasive techniques for lumbar herniated disc in comparison to more classical approaches.- Chapter 17. Comparative Analysis of Open Versus  Minimally Invasive Techniques for Posterior or Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion.- Chapter 18. Preoperative preparation of osteoporotic patients for instrumented spine surgery.- Chapter 19. Cubital Tunnel Syndrome – Primary decompression or transposition of the ulnar nerve at the elbow.- Chapter 20. Open versus endoscopische cubital tunnel release.- Chapter 21. Surgical Treatment of Meralgia Paresthetica.