501747 - NEUROSURGERY

Intracranial hypertension
• Methods for the direct and indirect measurement of intracranial pressure
• Pharmacological and neurosurgical treatments

Cranio-cerebral trauma
• General aspects
• Cranial fractures
• Extradural hematoma
• Acute and subacute subdural hematoma
• Chronic subdural hematoma
• Contusions
• CSF fistulas
• Post-traumatic pneumocephalus
• Post-traumatic vascular lesions
• Neurosurgical indications

Primary and secondary tumors of the brain
• Gliomas
• Meningiomas
• Acoustic neuromas
• Pituitary adenomas
• Tumors of the sellar region
• Metastatic brain tumors
• Pediatric brain tumors
• Supratentorial tumors
• Neurosurgical indications

Hydrocephalus
• CSF circulation
• Classification
• Etiology
• Clinical patterns
• Instrumental diagnosis
• Treatment
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Treatment

Spinal trauma
• Vertebral fractures
• Concept of stability/instability
• Spinal cord lesions
• Indications
• Sequelae

Congenital and degenerative lesions of the spine
• Pathogenesis
• Anatomy and physiology
• Pathophysiology
• Clinical patterns
• Disc hernia
• Lumbar stenosis
• Spondylotic myelopathy
• Dysraphisms
• Syringomyelia
• Diagnosis
• Prognosis
• Surgical management

Spinal and medullary tumors
• Clinical patterns
• Neuroimaging
• Metastatic lesions of the spine
• Extramedullary intradural tumors
• Intramedullary tumors
• Treatment

Cerebrovascular pathology of neurosurgical interest
• Anatomy and physiology of the brain circulation
• Spontaneous intracerebral hematomas
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Cerebral aneurysms
• Arteriovenous malformations
• Indications for the neurosurgical treatment

Trigeminal neuralgia, deafferentation syndromes and neuropathic pain
• Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and neurosurgical treatments