Editor in Chief
JKBC Parthiban, MCh Neuro, FNS Fujitha
Senior Consultant Neuro and Spine Surgeon,
HOD of Neurosurgery
Kovai Medical center, Coimbatore, India
Founder Editor
PS Ramani, MS, MCh
Department of Neurosurgery
Leelavathi research center,
Bandra , Mumbai, India
Editors
Jayesh Sardhara, M.Ch.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical science (SGPGIMS)
Lucknow, India
Sachin Borkar, M.Ch.
Additional Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New delhi, India
Praveen Salunke , M.Ch.
Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Post Graduate institute of medical education & research (PGIMER)
Chandigarh, India
Vinu.V. Gopal, M.Ch.
Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Govt Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Associate Editors
Karthikeyan Mathivanan, M.Ch.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Post Graduate institute of medical education & research (PGIMER)
Chandigarh, India
Anant Mehrotra, M.Ch.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical science (SGPGIMS)
Lucknow, India
Hitesh Gurjar, M.Ch.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New delhi, India
Praneeth Kokulla, M.Ch.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New delhi, India
Harish Naik, M.Ch.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Grant medical college and J J Group of hospitals,
Mumbai, India
Murali Krishnan VP, M.Ch.
Consultant Neurosurgeon
MVR Cancer Centre & Research Institute
Chulur, Vellalasseri, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
National advisory board
SS Kale, M.Ch.
Professor & Head of Department
Department of Neurosurgery
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New delhi, India
Sanjay Behari. M.Ch., DNB
Professor & Head of Department
Department of Neurosurgery
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical science (SGPGIMS)
Lucknow, India
Deepu Banerji. M.Ch.
Director Neurosurgery,
Jaslok hospital & Research Center
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
National advisory board
VK Jain. M.Ch.
Chairman & Head of Department,
Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
New Delhi, India
George Dhormann. M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
Mehmet Zileli M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
National Members
Anil Pandey, M.Ch
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Voluntary Health Services Hospital,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Anil Peethambaram, M.Ch.
Professor and Head,
Deparment of Neurosurgery,
Government Medical College Hospital,
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Vivek Joseph, M.Ch., FRCS
Professor & Head
Department of Neurological Sciences
Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
G Balamurali, M.Ch.
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Kauveri Spine Centre, Kauveri Hospital,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Balamurugan M, M.Ch.
Senior Consultant Neuro surgeon
Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India
Krishna Kumar, M.Ch.
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Sri Chitra institute of medical science and technology (SCTIMST)
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
AK Shrivastava, M.Ch.
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
G.B. Pant Institute of PGIMER,
New Delhi, India
Umesh Srikantha, M.Ch.
Senior consultant Neuro and spine surgeon
Head of spine services
Aster CMI hospital
Sahakarnagar, Hebbal, Bangalore, India
National Members
Sukumar Sura, MS, FRCS( Edinburgh), DNB
Chairman and Managing Director
Chief of spine surgery
Asian spine hospital, Hydrabad, India
Jacob Mathew Eapen, M.Ch.
Senior consultant & spine surgeon
Futureace Hospital, Edappally
Kochi, Kerala, India
Manas Panigrahi, M.Ch.
Senior consultant Neurosurgeon
Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences
Hydrabad, India
Sajesh K Menon, M.Ch.
Professor & Head
Department of Neurosurgery
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
Kochi, Kerala, India
Sathish Rudrappa, M.Ch.
Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon
Manipal Hospital, Bangaluru, Karnataka, India
Sumit Sinha, M.Ch, DNB
Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon
Paras Hospitals Gurugram Harayana, India
Yashbir Dewan, M.Ch.
Director,
Department of Neurosurgery
Artemis Institute of Health Sciences
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Vernon Velho, M.Ch.
Professor & Head
Department of Neurosurgery
Sir JJ Hospital Campus, Mumbai, India
National Members
Batuk Diyora M.S.,DNB
Additional Professor
Department of Neurosurgery,
LTMMG & lTMG Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India
Prakash Modha, M.Ch.
Senior Consultant Neuro & Spine surgeon
Gokul Superspeciality hospital
Rajkot, Gujrat, India
Komal Prasad. MS, DNB, M.Ch, PGDHHM,
PGDMLE, MNAMS, EMBA
Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spinal Surgeon
Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Neurosciences
Mazumdar Shaw Medical Center, Bangalore, India
Vijay Shankar, M.Ch
Senior consultant Neurosurgeon
SIMS Hospital, Vadapalani, Chennai, India
Selvan R, M.Ch
Senior consultant Neurosurgeon
Department of Neurosurgery
Subiksha Brain and Spine Center
Cape road, Nagercoil, India
Dhivya Palanisamy, M.Ch
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Apollo KH Hospital
Vellore, India
Suchanda Bhattacharjee, M.Ch
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences
Hyderabad, India
Faiz Ahmad M.D., M.Ch., FAANS, FACS
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA
International Members
Abdul Hafid Bajamal
Medical Faculty of Airlangga University
Indonesia
Eko Agus Subagio
Department of Neurosurgery
Dr.Soetomo General Academic Hospital
Indonesia
Ibet Marie Y Sih
Academy of Filipino Neurosurgeons
Section of Neurosurgery Institute for the Neurosciences
St. Luke’s Medical Center – Quezon City, Philippines
Salman Sharif
Professor & Head
Department of Neurosurgery
Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Pakistan
Krishna Sharma
Associate Professor & Head
Department of Neurosurgery
Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu University,
Kathmandu, Nepal
Se Hoon Kim
Korea University Ansan Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery,
Ansan Hospital, Korea
Jae Taek Hong
Department of Neurosurgery
Catholic University of Korea, Korea
Nobuyuki Shimokawa
Department of Neurosurgery
Tsukazaki Hospital, Hyogo, Japan
Toshihiro Takami
Department of Neurosurgery
Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Osaka, Japan
Zan Chen
Department of Neurosurgery
Xuan Wu Hospital Neurosurgery Department
Bei Jing, China
Feng Zeng Jian
Chief of Neurospine, vice chairman of department of neurosurgery
Capital medical university; China International neuroscience institute
Anandha babu
Staff Specialist and Director of Neurosurgery Training
Dept. of Neurosurgery
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
International Members
Lim Heng Hin
Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery, Spine Surgery
Malasiya
Dawn Antony
Dept. of Neurosurgery
Brunei Neuroscience, Stroke and Rehabilitation Center (BNSRC)
Pantai Jerudong Specialist Center (PJSC)
Negara, Brunei
Hishamuddin bin Salam
Senior consultant Neurosurgeon
Dept. of Neurosurgery, Malasiya
Krishnakumar Sharma
Associate Professor & Head
Department of Neurosurgery
Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu University,
Kathmandu, Nepal
Hishamuddin bin Salam
Adjunct Associate Professor
Monash Medical University, Johor,
Malaysia, Newcastle Medical University, Johor, Malaysia.
Bong Soo Kim
Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgeon
Temple university, lewis ketz school of medicine
Philadelphia, USA
Richard Fessler
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Rush University Medical Center, USA
Scott Robertson
Department of Neurosurgery, Assistant Clinical Professor
University of Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
Florida, USA
Dean Chou
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California San Francisco,
San Francisco, USA
Pravin Mummaneni
Vice Chairman: UCSF Neurosurgery
Co-director, UCSF Spine Center,
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
San Francisco, USA
Marcos Masini
Professor Neurology and Neurosurgery
School of Medicine, Uniceplac, Brazil
Enrique Osorio Fonesca
Head of Neurosurgery,
LOSCOBOS Medical Center, El Bosque,
Associated Professor Universidad El Bosque
Columbia
International Members
Jose Antonio Soriano Sanchez
Chairman of the Spine Clinic, Neurological Center,
ABC Medical Center. México
Joachim Oertel
Consultant Spine surgeon
Gebauede 90.5 ,Kirrbergerstrasse
Homburg, Germany
Kresimir Rotim
University of Zagreb, School of medicine,
Croatia and University of Osijek,
School of Medicine, Croatia
Maurijio Fornari
Senior consultant Neurosurgeon
Dept. of Neurosurgery, Italy
Francesco Costa
Associate Professor in neurosurgery
Chief of Spine Oncology Surgery Unit
Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Italy
Oscar L Alves
Head of Neurosurgery,
Hospital Lusiadas Porto, Portugal
Jesus Laufente
Associate professor Neurosurgery UAB
Director Spine Centre, Spain
Onur Yaman
Memorial Bahçelievler Spine Center
Istambul, Turkey
PD Kulkarni
Associate Specialist Spinal Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
London, England
Pragnesh Bhatt
Consultant Neurological & Spinal Surgeon,
Head of the Department of Neurosurgery,
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, University of Aberdeen,
Aberdeen, Scotland
Nikolay Peev
Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon
Belfast HSC Trust,Belfast, Northern Ireland ,United Kingdom
Wilco Peul
Professor of Neurosurgery Leiden University
Chair University Neurosurgical Center, Holland
Leiden & The Hague, Netherlands
Editor in Chief
J.K.B.C. Parthiban
Senior Consultant Neuro and Spine Surgeon,
HOD of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosurgery,
Kovai Medical Center and Hospital,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
juttyparthiban@gmail.com
Founder and Former Editor in Chief
P.S. Ramani
Neurospinal Surgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Associate Editors
Sushil Patkar
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Poona Hospital,
Pune, Maharashtra, India
VedantamRajashekhar
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Christian Medical College Hospital,
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Shashank Kale
Professor of Neurosurgery,
AIIMS, Delhi
Komal Prasad
Associate Editor
Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Neurosciences,
Anekal, Bengaluru, India
Assistant to Editors
ShradhaMaheswari
Assistant Proffessor,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Hindu Hrudaya Samrat Balasaheb Thackharey Hospital,
LTMG Hospital, Sion,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
S.Shanthanam
Registrar,
Deparment of Neurosurgery,
KMCH, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Vinu V Gopal
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Government Medical College,
Kottayam, Kerala, India
Balamurali
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Deparment of Neurosurgery,
Kauveri Spine Centre, Kauveri Hospital,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Sumeet Pawar
Associate Consultant,
Department of Neuro and Spine Surgery,
Narayana Health SRCC Children’s Hospital,
Haji Ali, Mumbai, India
National Editorial Board Members
Anil Pande
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Voluntary Health Services Hospital,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Anil Peethambaram
Professor and Head,
Deparment of Neurosurgery,
Government Medical College Hospital,
Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Balajipai S.
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
PMSSY Superspeciality hospital,
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Deepu Banerji
Director Neurosurgery,
Brain & Spine Center,
Fortis Hospitals,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Deopujari C.E
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
P.D. Hinduja Hospital, Bombay Hospital,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Harjinder Singh Bhatoe
Prof. of Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Command Hospital (SC) and Armed Forces Medical College,
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Krishnaprabhu
Associate Professor,
Deparment of Neurosurgery,
Christian Medical College Hospital,
Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
ManasPanigrahi
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Krishna Institute of medical sciences,
Secundarabad, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh, India
Muthukumar N
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Madurai Medical College,
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Prakash Modha
Head of the Neuro Surgery Neuro Trauma Dept,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Gokul Hospital & Trauma Centre,
Rajkot, Gujarat
Ravi RR
Chief of Neurosciencs,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Medical Trust Hospital,
Kochi, Kerala, India
Sajesh K Menon
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Spine Division,
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences,
Kochi, Kerala, India
Sandeep Chatterjee
Hon. Prof of Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Vivekanand Institute of Medical Sceiences (VIMS),
Kolkatta, West Bengal, India
Sarat Chandra
Professor, Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
All India Institute of medical Sciences,
New Delhi, India
Satish Rudrapa
Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Manipal Hospital,
Bangaluru, Karnataka, India
Shridhar K
Director, Chief Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Institute of Neurosciences and Spinal Disorders,
Global Hospital and Health City,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
ShrikantRege
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences,
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Yashbir Dewan
Director,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Artemis Institute of Health Sciences,
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Sumit Sinha
Delhi
Dhandapani
Associate Professor, Dept. Of Neurosurgery,
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER),
Chandigarh
Pravin Salunke
Chandigarh
Siddhartha S Sahoo
Odisha
GomatamVijayakumar
West Bengal
Deshpande Rajkumar
Bengaluru
Alok Ranjan
Apollo hospitals,
Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
Vivek Joseph
Professor, Dept. of Neuro Sciences,
CMC Hospital, Vellore,
Tamil Nadu
Publishing Center
Jitendar P Vij
Publisher
Chetna Malhotra Vohra
Associate Director
Rachita Singh
Managing Editor
Honorary Advisory Board
George Dohrman
University of Chicago Medical Center
USA
Jain VK
Chairman & Head of Department,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,
New Delhi, India
Yuri Shulev
Professor,
Head of Neurosurgery Department,
Saint-Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduated Studies,
St.Petersburg, Russia
Motoi Shoda
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Division of Spinal Surgery,
Yachiyo Hospital,
Anjyo, Aichi, Japan
Singh AK
Director, Senior Consultant & Head,
Department of Neurosciences,
Max Institute of Neurosciences,
Mussoorie, Dehradun, India
Mohamad Maziad
Professor of Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery,
Orthopaedic Department,
Medical Colleague – Ain shams University,
Cairo, Egypt
Mehmet Zileli
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Ege University,
Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
International Editorial Board Members
Abdul HafidBajamal
Department of Neurosurgery,
Airlangga University, Dr.Sutomo General Hospital,
Jl. Karangmenjangan, Surabaya, Indonesia
David Sun
Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Prince of Wales Hospital,
Chinese Univeristy of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Enrique Osorio-Fonseca
Associated Professor,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Universidad El Bosque,
Cecimin, Botota, Colombia
Giancarlo Guizzardi
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
University and City Hospital Careggi,
Firenze, Italy
Patrick Fransen
Chef du Service de Neurochirurgie,
Clinique du Parc Leopold,
Bruxelles, Belgium
P.D.Kulkarni
Associate Specialist Spinal Neurosurgeon,
Department of Neurosurgery,
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
London, England
Pragnesh Bhatt
Consultant Neurological & Spinal Surgeon,
Head of the Department of Neurosurgery,
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, University of Aberdeen,
Aberdeen, Scotland
Samuel JK Abraham
Center for Clinical Research and II Dept of Surgery,
Yamanashi University,
Chuo, Japan
Se-Hoon Kim
Director of Spinal Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosurgery,
Ansan Hospital, Korea University Medical Center,
Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Bong-Soo Kim
Department of Neurosurgery
Temple University
Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Junichi Mizuno
Center for Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
Shin-Yurigaoka General Hospital
JAPAN
Marcus Eif
Neurosurgical Clinic,
Städt. KlinikumGörlitz GmbH
Germany
Salman Sharif
Chief of Neurosurgery
Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College
Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Medical Sciences
Karachi, Pakistan
Nikolay A Peev
Sim KhairunNabi Khan
Dept. Of Neurosurgery
BSM Medical University
Dhaka, BANGLADESH.
Krishna Sharma
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery,
Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital,
Kathmandu University.
Nepal