Essential Neurosurgery

This book has exactly what it promises, the essentials. This reads more like a brief text book over view of topics rather than a how to like the Handbook of Neurosurgery does. It still has its place however as it has a great section in the beginning explaining imaging. It also has good info as far as mortality rates and the like for the conditions listed. It explains the topics (many of which were not covered in my PA program) in a way that any practitioner with a higher than novice level of medicine can understand.

Very readable style, not a "handbook" but a readable textbook. We use it for our new PA's in our practice to provide a overview.

Book was DAMAGED when arrived- paid for a NEW book and the cover was bent in two places the binding was completely shot. The cover is falling off and now I fear the pages will fall out... can't return due to time constraint needing the book. Would not recommend this listing.

I read this book cover to cover before starting my Neurosurgery subinternship and it really gave me a great overview for the patients I saw in clinic and cases I scrubbed on. The text flows nicely and it is easy to get through in a couple days, yet detailed enough so you can sound intelligent when talking about the topics. Good illustrations too. I would say this is a good read before the rotation starts, and then I recommend Handbook of Neurosurgery while on the rotation for specific cases.

Kaye provides a concise introduction to neurosurgery with good coverage of major topics. Chapters are short and enable the student to read while on rounds. Ideally, you would supplement the reading with a true text or original articles. Nevertheless, a good first start.

Trascurando il fatto che me l'hanno dovuto mandare due volte perché la prima volta mi arrivò spaginato per metà il libro e fatto benissimo se preso con le giuste precauzioni cioè è solo un compendio, un reminder non certo un libro di testo di neurochirurgia.