About This Book
Where Neurosurgery Fundamentals gives medical students and residents the knowledge base of the specialty, Operative Fundamentals in Neurological Surgery turns to the procedures themselves: indications, positioning, approach, key intraoperative steps, common pitfalls, and postoperative care.
Each chapter pairs a step-by-step operative narrative with online MedOne videos, so trainees can watch a procedure performed before they walk into the room and revisit it afterward to consolidate what they saw.
Key Features
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Step-by-Step Operative Narratives
Cranial and spinal procedures structured for fast pre-case review.
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Pearls and Pitfalls
Practical guidance from the editors' training and faculty practice in academic neurosurgery.
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Visual Reinforcement
Intraoperative photographs, illustrations, and radiographic correlates for each procedure.
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MedOne Videos
Online video integrated chapter-by-chapter so the text and the case footage reinforce one another.
About the Editors
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Nitin Agarwal, MD, MBA, FACS
Editor
Acting Chief and Site Residency Program Director of Neurological Surgery at the Veteran Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and Director of the Spine Computational Outcomes Learning Institute (SCOLI). He is board-certified in neurological surgery with fellowship training in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery, and earned his MBA from The Wharton School. His work spans neurotrauma outcomes, spine surgery outcomes, socioeconomic research, and patient education, with over 350 publications and more than 350 presentations.
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Hanna N. Algattas, MD
Editor
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University at Buffalo who completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, followed by fellowship training in open and endoscopic skull base surgery and a sports neurosurgery fellowship. His clinical focus includes skull base and pituitary disease, neuro-oncology, and minimally invasive cranial surgery.
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Edward G. Andrews, MD
Editor
Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, where he completed his residency and an enfolded neuro-oncology fellowship. His practice focuses on neuro-oncologic neurosurgery and minimally invasive and robotic spine surgery, and he founded the Surreality Lab, which develops spatial-computing applications for surgery.
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Kamil W. Nowicki, MD, PhD
Editor
Endovascular neurosurgeon and physician-scientist who completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and an endovascular fellowship at Yale University, and now serves as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. His research focuses on cerebral aneurysms and vascular inflammation.
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Xiaoran Zhang, MD
Editor
Neurosurgeon specializing in brain and spinal cord tumors who completed his neurosurgical residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a neurosurgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Now practicing with Sutter Health in California, his research interests include glioma biology and immunotherapy.