Updated for a new generation of neurosurgeons, Kempe's Operative Neurosurgery, maintains many of the features that made it a timeless classic thirty years ago - chapters written in an authoritative voice of a single neurosurgical expert, brevity and conciseness in text paired with instructive, clear line drawings, and a portability that will allow the books to be valuable references in and out of the operating room for both practicing neurosurgeons and neurosurgeons-in-training. 556 illustrations are included in this two volume set. This lavishly-illustrated works covers the spectrum of open-approach procedures seen by the neurosurgeon in daily practice, from the skull and its base through the peripheral nervous system.