Neuroendoscopy: Current Status and Future Trends

As a result of technological improvements, neuroendoscopy is now used in the treatment of many more patients, enabling the performance of previously unavailable operations with low complication rates and rapid patient recovery. This book presents the distilled experience of world experts in this evolving field. Current applications in a wide variety of settings are explained in detail and likely future developments are identified. In addition, the available neuroendoscopic instruments are reviewed and the results of international trials and collaborative studies, presented. This book will fully acquaint the reader with the breadth and depth of available neuroendoscopy techniques and their impressive therapeutic potential. It should serve as the reference book on neuroendoscopy for the next 10 years.

Spyros Sgouros is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Attikon University Hospital in Athens, Greece. He has a known academic and research profile in pediatric neurosurgery. He has published extensively in CSF disorders, brain tumors and craniosynostosis. He is in the Executive Board of the International and European Societies for Pediatric Neurosurgery and the International Federation of Neuroendoscopy. He is Associate Editor of Child's Nervous System and is co-editing a new large textbook in CSF disorders, due to appear in print summer 2009. Professor Sgouros is reviewing papers for most mainstream neurosurgical journals.