Author: Biz India

Editors:  Jesse B. Jupiter, Douglas A. Campbell, and Fiesky Nunez Publisher:  Thieme – 510 pages, with about 2,000 illustrations, 15 videos Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This 2019 book was originally part of AO Manual of Hand and Wrist published in 2016. Two books resulted from that first edition, one focused on the hand, and the other on the wrist. This typically happens in publishing when knowledge expands as a consequence of advancement in technology, new discoveries, fresh expertise gathered by practitioners, and the development of insight and greater understanding from experience. Further, much of the information contained in...

Editor: Matthew L. Carlson, MD Associate Editors: Michael J. Link. MD, Colin L.W. Driscoll, MD, Brian A. Neff, MD, Jamie J. Van Gompel, MD, Kelly D. Flemming, MD, John I. Lane, MD, Neil T. Shepard, PhD, Robert L. Foote, MD. llustrator: Robert F. Morreale, MS, CMI. FAMI Publisher: Thieme – 569 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani About 2,000 to 3,000 cases of vestibular schwannoma (VS) are diagnosed each year in the United States, an article in Wikipedia points out. This works out to about 6 to 9 per million people in the current U.S. population of 330 million....

Editors: William S. Anderson, MD and The Society for Innovative Neuroscience in Neurosurgery Publisher: Thieme – 175 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book has been written primarily for neurosurgical residents, functional neurosurgery fellows, and new deep brain stimulation (DBS) practitioners Movement disorders and other conditions are increasingly being treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) by neurosurgeons such as the editor Dr. William Anderson who along with six other colleagues are founding members of the Society for Innovative Neuroscience in Neurosurgery. They describe themselves as a small group of ‘passionate’ neurosurgeons rapidly changing the DBS field. It is...