Overview
- Discusses the management and complications of hydrocephalus
- Presents the most advanced research on its pathophysiology
- Provide a new understanding and classifications
- Includes key ethical issues
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Hydrocephalus
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Etiology and Pathophysiology of Hydrocephalus
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Clinical Presentation of Hydrocephalus
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ahmed Ammar, MBChB, DMSc, FICS, FACS, has been a Professor and Consultant Neurosurgeon at the KFHU, Dammam University since 1987. He graduated from the Medical School in 1977 and started his Neurosurgery training program at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden in 1979. He subsequently moved to Japan’s Shinshu University, where he completed his doctorate in Neurosurgery in 1984. This was followed by a fellowship at the Dept. of Neurosurgery, Pittsburgh University, USA, in 1989.
He wrote the first Head Trauma Protocol for MOH, SA 2013, and has published over 100 manuscripts in international journals and chapters in 7 books. He was editor of the book “Ethics in Neurosurgery Practice,” published by Springer in 2014.
Prof. Ammar has a special interest in pediatric neurosurgery. His current scientific research focuses on the long-term outcomes of mild head trauma (in progress), the long-term outcomes of hydrocephalus (finished) and the Wide Genome for Epilepsy (in progress). He has also designed and patented four neurosurgical instruments and been recognized with the following awards: the Life Time Achievement in Medicine/ Neurosurgery Award, Venous International Foundation, 2016, Walter E Dandy Neurosurgical International Society Award, 2015, Saudi Neurosurgical Society Medal of Appreciation 2014, and the Saud Neuroscience Society Appreciation Award 2009.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hydrocephalus
Book Subtitle: What do we know? And what do we still not know?
Editors: Ahmed Ammar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61304-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61303-1Published: 04 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87046-5Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61304-8Published: 21 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 369
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neurosciences, Bioethics