Cranial Osteomyelitis: Diagnosis and Treatment

ISBN-13: 9783319807669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 325 str.

Ali Akhaddar

Opis

This book is the first reference book covering exclusively all aspects of this challenging disease. It is designed to serve as a succinct appropriate resource for neurosurgeons, otorhinolaryngologists, neuroradiologists, researchers and infectious disease specialists with an interest in cranial infection. Cranial Osteomyelitis provides an in-depth review of knowledge of the management of skull osteomyelitis, with an emphasis on risk factors, causative pathogens, pathophysiology of dissemination, clinical presentations, neuroradiological findings and treatment modalities, medical and surgical. Sections on the prognosis and prevention of this illness are also included. The book will help the reader in choosing the most appropriate way to manage this challenging bone infection. In addition, it supplies clinicians and investigators with both basic and more sophisticated information and procedures relating to the complications associated with skull osteomyelitis. It also considers future areas of investigation and innovative therapeutic philosophies. The book is richly illustrated to provide readers with unparalleled access to a comprehensive collection of cranial osteomyelitis images (biological, clinical, neuroradiological, and surgical) taken directly from the author's collection and experience in the field.

Recenzje

"This unique reference book is well organized into six main parts containing a total of 16 chapters ... . we strongly recommend this unique work as a practical and quick source of information for all pediatric neurosurgeons and neurologists, radiologists, and infectious disease consultants who feel a need to fill a gap in their knowledge base." (Ahmet T. Turgut and Mehmet Turgut, Child's Nervous System, November, 2016)

Spis treści

Dedication

Forewords

Acknowledgements

Part I    General Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction, Definitions and Historical Aspects                              

 Part II   Basic Information for Cranial Osteomyelitis         

Chapter 2   Epidemiology and Risk Factors                                                            

Chapter 3   Different Pathogens Involved                                                           

Chapter 4   Histopathologic Changes                                           

Chapter 5   Pathophysiology and Anatomical Spreads of Infection                     

Part III     Diagnosis of Cranial Osteomyelitis

Chapter 6   Main Clinical Presentations               

Chapter 7   Laboratory Findings                                                                                              

Chapter 8  Imaging Studies                                                                                      

Chapter 9  Differential Diagnoses: Clinical and Imaging                                                                                

Part IV   Management of Cranial Osteomyelitis

 Chapter 10   General Considerations and Surgical Therapy                                                                             

Chapter 11   Antimicrobial and Medical Therapy                                                                                                      

Chapter <12  Adjuvant Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy                                                                   

Chapter 13  Outcomes and Prognoses                               

Part V    Special Conditions in Cranial Osteomyelitis

 

Chapter 14   Unusual Pathogens                            

 Chapter 15<   Special Clinical Situations                 

 Part VI    Prevention of Cranial Osteomyelitis

 Chapter 16   Preventive Measures Against Cranial Bone Infection

 Index

O autorze

Ali AKHADDAR, MD, is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Faculty of Medicine, Mohammed V University in Rabat (Morocco) and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Avicenne Military Hospital of Marrakech (Morocco). He is an Expert Member of the Scientific Committees of the National Scientific and Technological Research Center of Morocco (CNRST). Dr Akhaddar is a Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the French speaking society of Neurosurgery (SNCLF) and the Military Neurosurgeons Committee in the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS). He has received many awards during his career, including from the Moroccan Society of Neurosurgery, the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies [Traveling Fellowship Award: Nagoya 2007, Boston 2009 and Seoul 2013], the University of Mohammed V of Rabat and the French Society of Hospitals’ History (SFHH).Dr Akhaddar is a member of the editorial board of the Open Neurosurgery Journal and Médecine du Maghreb and is a reviewing editor for many medical journals. He is the author of three previous books; he has authored and co-authored more than 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (140 indexed in PubMed*) and five book chapters.