Microneuroanatomy and Surgery

Microneuroanatomy is essential to understanding the brain. In many cases, passing on neuroanatomical knowledge is a difficult task to accomplish, yet this is chiefly due to those who are tasked with conveying this knowledge in classes and lectures, or in books.

In reality, neuroanatomy is simple and needs to be understood as a tool for approaching the different areas of the brain, not as an obstacle, and the only way to overcome this problem is to correlate neuroanatomy with various types of disease (arteriovenous malformations, aneurysms, tumors, cavernomas, hydrocephalus, etc.)

This book provides a novel approach to the relation between microneuroanatomy and brain diseases. Each chapter addresses a specific neuroanatomical region, and correlates all the key neuroanatomical aspects with diseases that affect it; further, each chapter provides detailed insights into safely performing brain surgery in the respective region.   

Feres Chaddad-Neto, MD, PhD

Graduated with a degree in Medicine (1996) and complete the Residency in Neurosurgery (1997-2000) at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCCAMP). Fellowship in Vascular and Tumor Microsurgery at Instituto de Ciências Neurológicas (ICNE) with Dr. Evandro de Oliveira (2001). Master´s Degree in Neurology (2006) and PhD in Neurology (2010) at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Fellowship in Microsurgical Anatomy, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, USA, with Prof. Albert Rhoton Junior (2013). Post-Doctorate in Neurology, at Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (2017). Worked with Dr. Evandro de Oliveira for 15 years (2002-2016). Currently Head of Neurosurgery Department at Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo; Professor and Head of Neurovascular Surgery, Professor of Post Graduation in Neurology & Neuroscience, and Coordinator of the Microneuroanatomy Laboratory at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP).

Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa, MD, PhD

Graduated with a degree in Medicine at Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2010), completed his Residency Program in Neurosurgery at the same University (2016), and also completed Master in Science (2015) and PhD (2019) at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Fellowships in Vascular Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix-AZ, USA (2013) with Dr. Robert Spetzler and Pediatric Neurosurgery in Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus-OH, USA, (2016) with Dr. Jeffrey Leonard. Currently Coordinator of the Neurosurgery Residency Program at Universidade Federal de São Paulo and Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Pediatric Oncology Institute (IOP/GRAACC/UNIFESP), and member Pediatric Neurosurgery Group headed by Professor Sergio Cavalheiro.