Transsphenoidal Surgery
Expert Consult - Online and Print
Published on 23. August 2010
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-4160-0292-5 (ISBN)
Description
Transsphenoidal Surgery, by Drs. Laws and Lanzino, captures all of today's clinical knowledge on the multidisciplinary management of pituitary tumors, with a focus on surgical techniques. Acclaimed international experts bring you detailed guidance on natural history, radiologic and clinical aspects, surgical indications, and resection techniques. What's more, case presentations and clinical photographs help you reduce the risk of error and advance your own surgical skills.
Access the fully searchable text online in which experts demonstrate how to perform key procedures.
Refine your skills through discissions of intraoperative imaging, new techniques in transsphenoidal surgery, new microsurgical procedures, radiosurgical techniques, and more.
Get balanced and comprehensive perspectives on pituitary surgery from well-recognized international, multidisciplinary contributors.
Make better-informed decisions with case presentations, drawn from Dr. Laws's 40 plus years as a leader in pituitary surgery, that include a summary of the clinical history, preoperative radiographs, and postoperative clinical information and radiographs.
Tap into exceptional visual guidance and reduce the risk of error through abundant clinical photographs and?line drawings.
Find the information you need quickly via a consistent chapter-to-chapter organization.
Reduce the risk of error by watching the experts
Access the fully searchable text online in which experts demonstrate how to perform key procedures.
Refine your skills through discissions of intraoperative imaging, new techniques in transsphenoidal surgery, new microsurgical procedures, radiosurgical techniques, and more.
Get balanced and comprehensive perspectives on pituitary surgery from well-recognized international, multidisciplinary contributors.
Make better-informed decisions with case presentations, drawn from Dr. Laws's 40 plus years as a leader in pituitary surgery, that include a summary of the clinical history, preoperative radiographs, and postoperative clinical information and radiographs.
Tap into exceptional visual guidance and reduce the risk of error through abundant clinical photographs and?line drawings.
Find the information you need quickly via a consistent chapter-to-chapter organization.
Reduce the risk of error by watching the experts
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Approx. 574 illustrations (115 in full color)
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 219 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4160-0292-5 (9781416002925)
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Persons
Edward R. Laws is currently the Director of the Pituitary/Neuroendocrine Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He was formerly the President of the American College of Surgeons and has served as President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Editor of Neurosurgery, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for International Education in Neurosurgery, Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and President of the Pituitary Society.