Mackinnon Susan E. Nerve Surgery

Thieme, 2015. — 645 p.This book treats compressive neuropathies including their complications, as well as their treatments including of the traditional treatments but also innovating.The interest of this book lies in the description of the assumption of responsibility of these lesions by the team of the author what in fact a book of experiment, trying of with dimensions to be exhaustive, but also according to the choices of the author while basing itself over many years of experiment.Thus, one finds the philosophy of the author in the therapeutic strategies that it is surgical or not, in first intention but also in the failures of the surgery.The first milked part of the anatomy, physiology, the clinical examination, and electromyographic.The second part treats various ways of treating the wounds and then compressions of nerves (as well on the levels of the upper limbs or lower limbs or facial nerve area).The last part treats tumors, sinewy transfers, and treatment of the painful aftereffects.This book will be of a great utility for the orthopedic surgeons and with the hand, the neurosurgeons since they have to deal with the lesions of the nerves.