Cranial Surgery - Part 1
- 1st Edition, Volume 284 - April 9, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Jeremy Christopher Ganz
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 7 1 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 8 7 2 - 7
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- Cranial Surgery
- Printing and Images
- Surgeons Conservatism
Neurosurgeons, Medical and Surgical Historians, Medical Illustrators, University Libraries, Neurosurgical and Surgical Societies
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Series Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributor
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- History and scientific truth
- Sources of error and personality issues
- Failure to learn and misleading teachings
- Misleading images
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter One Basic considerations
- Abstract
- 1 Historical variations in cranial surgery
- 2 Contemporary management of head injuries
- 3 Principles from the past
- References
- Chapter Two Trepanation technique
- Abstract
- 1 Smaller openings—Two handed trepan
- 2 Smaller openings—One handed trephine
- 3 Technique
- 4 Larger openings
- References
- Chapter Three Prehistoric or current primitive cranial operations
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Location
- 3 Technique
- 4 Indications
- 5 Anesthesia
- 6 Results
- References
- Chapter Four Hippocrates (ca 460 BC to ca 370 BC)
- Abstract
- 1 Background
- 2 Relevant early Greek science
- 3 Application of humoral physiology to practical treatment
- 4 Classification of cranial injuries
- 5 Clinical findings
- 6 Indications for trepanation
- 7 Instrumentation
- 8 Surgical technique
- 9 Results of treatment
- 10 Surgery qualifications
- References
- Chapter Five Anatomy after Hippocrates
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Praxagoras of Kos (born ca. 340 BC)
- 3 Herophilus of Chalcedon (ca. 335 BC–ca. 280)
- 4 Erasistratus (ca. 304 BC–ca. 250 BC)
- References
- Chapter Six Rome—Celsus (ca 25 BC to ca. 50 AD)
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A little more background
- 3 Anatomy
- 4 Classification of injuries
- 5 Clinical findings
- 6 Indications for trepanation
- 7 Instrumentation
- 8 Depressed fractures
- 9 After care
- References
- Chapter Seven Rome—Galen (129 to ca. 216)
- Abstract
- 1 Personal details
- 2 The soul and intelligence
- 3 Galen's anatomy
- 4 Galen's physiology
- 5 Classification of injuries
- 6 Clinical findings
- 7 Indications for surgery
- 8 Instrumentation
- 9 Surgical technique
- 10 Post-operative care
- 11 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Eight Europe following Galen
- Abstract
- 1 A scientific vacuum
- 2 Oribasius (ca. 320–400 AD)
- 3 Aetius of Amida
- 4 Alexander of Tralles (ca. 625 AD to ca. 690 AD)
- 5 Paul of Ægina (625–690 AD)
- References
- Chapter Nine Outside Europe
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Indian surgery
- 3 Chinese surgery
- 4 Japan and Korea
- References
- Chapter Ten Emigration of Greek Knowledge to the Arab World
- Abstract
- 1 Following Alexander the Great's death
- 2 Following the fall of Rome
- 3 Abū Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishāq al-‘Ibādt (Johannitus) (809–873)
- 4 Abū Bakr Muhammed ibn Zakariya al Razi (Rhazes) (ca.865–932)
- 5 Ahmed bin Jaafar bin Brahim Ibn Al Jazzar Al-Qayrawani (Algizar) (895–979)
- 6 Ali ibn Abbas Majusi Arajani (Haly Abbas) (ca. 930–994)
- 7 Abū Ali al-Usayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan (Avicenna) (ca 980–1037)
- 8 Abū al-Qāsim Khalif ibn -al’Abbās az-Zahrāwī (Albucasis) (936–1013)
- 9 Effect of Arabic practice on surgical study and practice
- References
- Chapter Eleven Late Middle Ages—Europe
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Government
- 3 Translation
- 4 Universities
- 5 Dissection
- 6 Roger Frugard of Parma (1140–1195)
- 7 Roland of Parma
- 8 Bruno da Longoburgo (ca 1200–1286)
- 9 Theodoric Borgognoni (1205–1298)
- 10 William of Saliceto (1210–1277)
- 11 Guido Lanfranchi (1250–1306)
- 12 Henri de Mondeville (1260–1316)
- 13 Jehan Yperman (ca. 1260–1331)
- 14 Guy de Chauliac (ca.1300–1368)
- 15 Chapter review—Evolving ideas
- References
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 284
- Published: April 9, 2024
- No. of pages (Hardback): 176
- No. of pages (eBook): 358
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443238710
- eBook ISBN: 9780443238727
JG
Jeremy Christopher Ganz
Born 1943. Educated Craig y nos preparatory school Swansea, Ellesmere College, St. John's College Cambridge and St. Thomas's Hospital London. Trained in neurosurgery at Queen Square London, Frenchay Hospital Bristol and the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Practised as a neurosurgeon in Bergen from 1979 to 1993 and again from 2007 to 2010, when he retired. Between 1985 and 1990 undertook the work in Oslo which formed the basis for a doctoral thesis on intracranial epidural bleeding.
Between 1993 and and 2001 travelled the world teaching Gamma Knife neurosurgery and from 2001 to 2007 was the medical director of the Gamma Knife Center in Cairo. Since retirement in 2010 had one year teaching neurology to undergraduate medical students in Shantou in China. Since 2011 has been engaged in researching and publishing papers on neurosurgical history.
Affiliations and expertise
(Retired) Department of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, NorwayRead Cranial Surgery - Part 1 on ScienceDirect