<p>This book offers an update on several basic and clinical problems in neurosurgery compiled by internationally recognized experts. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This multi-thematic volume&nbsp; will touch on a variety of topics: from&nbsp; the role of women neurosurgeons in the last hundred year of the specialty history, to the pathogenesis of spinal dysraphism, to the convection-enhanced delivery of intracerebral antineoplastic drugs in children, through a review of methods and applications. The intraoperative cerebral blood flow monitoring in neurosurgery will be also discussed, offering again a comprehensive review of contemporary technologies and emerging perspectives. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for the&nbsp; technical standards, the book will describe the multimodality approach to cerebral gliomas, the management of thalamic tumors, the intracavitary treatment of craniopharyngiomas, the long term results of spasticity treatments,&nbsp; the surgical treatment of&nbsp; spinal vascular malformations, the management of idiopathic and refractory syringomyelia, offering at the same time an update of peripheral nerve surgery.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All the chapters have to be considered an advance in the relative fields,&nbsp; in cerebral pathophysiology and in clinical management. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p> Approaching the issue of technical standards&nbsp; in the everyday clinical practice of neurosurgery,&nbsp; this book is of great interest for neurosurgeons, neurologists and orthopaedists.<br></p>