Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo, MD,PhD, completed a fellowship in microsurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute (USA). He holds a PhD in sciences and is an associate professor of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (USP), as well as head of the Cerebrovascular Surgical Group at Division of Neurological Surgery (HCFMUSP). He has been one of postgraduate coordinator at the University of São Paulo's Department of Neurology since 2015 and chief editor of Brazilian Neurosurgery, the official Brazilian neurosurgery journal, since 2011. Dr. Figueiredo is the current president of Brazilian Neurosurgical Society (2021-2022) and associate member of Harvard Medical School and Harvard University Alumni since 2015.

Nícollas Nunes Rabelo, MD, PhD, Neurosurgeon and member of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery and SBN Academic league director (2021-2022). He has a postgraduate qualification in Neurocritical care medicine from Sirio Libanês Hospital and a fellowship in vascular and skull base Neurosurgery at the University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP). Dr. Rabelo is a Pos PhD student from School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (FMUSP) and is an adjunct researcher at the same University. He has MBA in health management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and is Professor of Atenas Medical School and Pos graduate of neurocritical care medicine at Sirio Libanês Hospital- IEP.

Leonardo C. Welling, MD, PhD, is a neurosurgeon and member of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery. He obtained a postgraduate qualification in neurointensive care from Sirio Libanês Hospital (São Paulo) and completed a fellowship in microneuroanatomy at the Portuguese Beneficence Hospital (São Paulo). He holds a doctoral degree in medical sciences from the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (FM-USP) and completed the same university's postdoctoral neurology program. Heis a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (USA) and a Professor of Neurosurgery at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG).

Provides neuroanatomy applied concepts

Includes illustrations, photos and a surgical video

Helpful source of study and research for neurosurgeons

1. Introduction: Basic Concepts of Microsurgery, is it possible to be an expert?.- Part I. The Surface.- 2. The Skin and superficial Nerves: What does it matters for Neurosurgeons - Surgical Anatomy of the Scalp.- 3. Beyond the bone- Surgical Anatomy of the Skull.- 4. More than circumvolutions - Surgical Anatomy of the Sulci and Gyrus of the Brain.- 5. The Hidden Lobe - Surgical Anatomy of the Insula.- 6. The delicate anatomy - Surgical Anatomy of Sulci and Gyrus of the Cerebellum.- 7. The Dangerous Zone - Surgical Anatomy of the Brainstem.- 8. What Lies Behind? - Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal Bone and Transtemporal Approaches.- Part II. The Cisterns.- 9. The Hub of the Cisterns - Surgical Anatomy of the Basal Cisterns.- 10. The Beginning of everything - Surgical Anatomy of the Sylvian Cistern.- 11. Be careful with the midline - Surgical Anatomy of the Interhemispheric Fissure.- 12. The soul - Surgical Anatomy of the Pineal Region.- 13. Skull base Joker? - Surgical Anatomy of the Ponto-Cerebellar Cistern.- 14. Are posterior fossa cisterns important? - Surgical Anatomy of Other Cerebello-medullary Cistern.- Part III. The Central Core.- 15. The functional anatomy - Surgical Anatomy of the White Fiber Tracts.- 16. Deep inside - Surgical Anatomy of the Basal Ganglia and Thalamus.- Part IV. The Ventricles.- 17. Knowing me can make your life easier - Surgical Anatomy of the Lateral Ventricles.- 18. Do you know all the ways to get there? - Surgical Anatomy of the III Ventricle.- 19. Despite small there is many coordination - Surgical Anatomy of the IV Ventricle.- Part V. The Skull Base.- 20. Fistula? Is it possible? - Surgical Anatomy of the Anterior Fossa.- 21. Is it possible to access the eye? - Surgical Anatomy of the Orbit.- 22. Are there many structures attached? - Surgical Anatomy of the Middle Fossa.- 23. Our neighborhood are complex - Surgical Anatomy of the Parasellar Region.- 24. Anterior Incisural Space - Attention to the perforators.-25. Are there something behind the temporal lobe? - Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal Bone.- 26. Is it really no-mans land? Surgical Anatomy of the Cavernous Sinus.- 27. Be careful - Surgical Anatomy of the Petroclival Region.- 28. Surgical anatomy of the far lateral approach and Jugular Foramen.- 29. Where it all ends - Surgical Anatomy of the Foramen Magnum.- 30.Brainsteam Tumors.