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Pediatric Neurosurgery for Clinicians

Beschreibung

This book presents a detailed overview of a spectrum of pediatric neurosurgical conditions. It features detailed insight into the techniques available for examining abnormalities, hemorrhages and a variety of tumors. Relevant surgical methodologies are described in relation to a clinical problem or disorder, ensuring that the reader can systematically develop their knowledge of how to perform both routine and more-obscure procedures presently utilized to treat these conditions.

Pediatric Neurosurgery for Clinicians is a comprehensive guide detailing methodologies for applying a range of surgical techniques based upon a range of clinical questions. Therefore, it is a critical resource for all practicing and trainee physicians who encounter children with disorders affecting their neurological systems in disciplines within neurosurgery, neurology, radiology, oncology and pathology.

Autor

Dr. Georgios Alexiou is an Assistant Prof. of Neurosurgery  at the University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece since 2017. He graduated from the same university in 2004. He undertook his neurosurgical training at ''Agia Sofia'' Children's Hospital in Athens and at the University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece. After finishing his residency he received the EANS Spine Fellowship award and worked as a Clinical Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery in Leeds Teaching Hospital, UK. He then received the AANS International Travelling Fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery award at the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery in Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Alexiou worked as a consultant at the Gamma Knife Center at the University Hospital La Timone in Marseille, France. He has a Master degree in Biotechnology and Public Health. His PhD was on the differential diagnosis of glioma recurrence from radiation necrosis using SPECT and MRI that was funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission (5M Euro). Dr. Alexiou worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas and is also working on basic research at the Neurosurgical Research Institute in Ioannina, Greece.  His primary research interests are pediatric neurosurgery, advanced imaging and radiotherapy techniques to improve the outcomes of glioma patients, intraoperative flow cytometry for brain tumor surgery and on the discovery and validation of novel chemotherapeutic agents for glioma treatment.  Dr Neofytos Prodromou is a Pediatric Neurosurgeon. He graduated from the University of Athens, Greece and after finishing his residency he worked as a Senior Registrar in Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London, UK. Afterwards he worked as a clinical fellow in epilepsy surgery in  Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. He finished his PhD on neurosurgery and he was a Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Department of the Children's Hospital ''Agia Sofia'', Athens Greece for 35 years. He currently works as a Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Department in ''Mitera'', Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece. Dr Prodromou has performed more than 10.000 operations covering the entire spectrum of pediatric neurosurgery. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-80524-1
• 1st edition 2022
• Seitenzahl: 872
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1451g
• ISBN-13: 9783030805241
• ISBN-10: 3030805247
• Artikelnr.: 67057528