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Table of Contents

Section one: General neurosurgery

1. Historical perspective

2. Informed consent and medico legal aspects of neurosurgery

3. Wrong Side Craniotomy and Wrong Level Spine Surgery – ‘res ipsa loquitur’

4. Medical complications in neurosurgery

5. Surgical complications in cranial and spine surgery (Position-related, pneumocephalus, pseudomeningocoele and CSF leak, wound complications)

6. Venous injury and cerebral edema in cranial surgery

7. Post-operative hematoma after neurosurgery

Section two: Cranial complications

Vascular surgery complications

8. Overview

9. Intra-operative rupture and parent artery injury during aneurysm surgery

10. Cerebral Vasospasm: complications and avoidance

11. Complications of AVM microsurgery; steal phenomenon and management of residual AVM

12. Complications of cerebral bypass surgery

13. Complications of surgery for cavernomas

14. Complication of Carotid endarterectomy

Skull base surgery complications

15. Overview

16. Complications in anterior cranial fossa surgery

17. Complications in middle cranial fossa surgery

18. Complications in posterior cranial fossa surgery

19. Complications of Chiari Malformation surgery

Primary brain lesion resection complications

20. Primary brain lesion resection complications: An Overview

21. Complications following glioma surgery

22. Complications of surgery for pituitary tumors

23. Thalamic and insular tumors: minimizing deficits

24. Complications of surgery for pineal region tumors

25. Complications associated with surgery for intracranial infectious lesions : (tuberculosis, hydatid, neurocysticercosis)

26. Malignant Brain Swelling After Resection of Superior Sagittal Sinus Meningioma

27. Facial nerve and Auditory nerve deficit in GKRS for vestibular schwannomas

Pediatric neurosurgery complications

28. Complications of posterior fossa tumors: ependymoma/ medulloblastoma/ pilocytic astrocytoma

29. Craniopharyngioma: complications after microsurgery

30. Complications associated with Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion

31. Complications After Myelomeningocele Repair: CSF Leak and Retethering

Functional and radiosurgery, Surgery for trigeminal neuralgia; Complications

32. Complications of various treatment options for trigeminal neuralgia

33. Complications of DBS

34. Complications following epilepsy surgery

35. Complications after Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Endoscopic surgery

36. Complications of endonasal endoscopy

37. Vascular injuries in transsphenoidal approach

38. Complications of ventricular endoscopy

Endovascular surgery

39. Access-related complications: (groin hematoma, dissection and pseudoaneurysm, contrast-nephropathy, air embolism)

40. Procedure-related complications: Aneurysms—Intraprocedural rupture, thromboembolic events, coil migration or prolapse into parent artery, and recurrent aneurysm management

41. Procedure related complications: AVM embolization

42. Procedure related complications: Stroke

43. Procedure related complications: CCF and AVF

Trauma

44. Complications after decompressive craniectomy and cranioplasty

45. Complications following surgery for chronic subdural hematoma

Section three: Spinal and peripheral nerve surgery complications

General and Degenerative spinal disease surgery complications

46. Overview of General and Degenerative Spine Surgery Complications

47. Adjacent level disc degeneration and pseudoarthrosis

48. Graft related complications (Autograft, BMP, synthetic)

49. Procedure related complications (Inadvertent dural tear, CSF leak)

50. Complications of surgery at craniocervical junction

51. Neurologic deterioration after spinal surgery (including cauda equine)

52. Vascular injury during approach to lumbar spine

53. Vascular complications in cervical spine surgery (anterior approach and posterior approach)

54. Instrumentation related complications

55. Post-op spinal deformities: kyphosis, non-union and loss of motion segment

56. Complications of MIS

Spinal neoplastic and vascular lesion surgery complications

57. Complications in Spinal Cord Tumor Surgery

58. Complications of surgery for vertebral body tumors

59. Complications of surgery for spinal vascular malformations

60. Complications of surgery and radiosurgery in spinal metastasis

Spinal Trauma and peripheral nerve surgery complications

61. Complication of spinal fractures

62. Post-traumatic syringomyelia

63. Complications of Surgery for Peripheral Nerve Injuries and Tumors