Combining informative, meticulously crafted prose with more than 4,000 high-quality images, Osborn’s Brain, third edition, is a comprehensive, easy to understand, and visually stunning learning curriculum from highly esteemed author Dr. Anne G. Osborn. This fully revised edition provides a solid framework for understanding the complex subject of brain imaging, integrating relevant information from Dr. Osborn’s entire career of accumulated knowledge, experience, and interest in neuropathology, neurosurgery, and clinical neurosciences. While neuroradiologists will find intriguing, thought-provoking insights included especially for them in every chapter, Osborn’s Brain is an excellent review resource for physicians at all levels of expertise―from seasoned radiologists and neurosurgeons to new and senior residents or fellows.

• Combines essential anatomy with gross pathology and imaging, clearly demonstrating why and how diseases appear the way they do and helping readers think clearly about diagnoses, types of diagnoses, and the various pathologies that can affect the brain
• Guides readers through the “must know” aspects of neuroimaging and neuropathology (brain trauma, stroke, vascular lesions, etc.) before zeroing in on such topics as infections, demyelinating and inflammatory diseases, neoplasms, toxic-metabolic-degenerative disorders, and congenital brain malformations
• Provides state-of-the-art coverage on such topics as new brain tumor entities, the effects of emerging viral illness such as COVID-19 on the brain, and recently delineated/named diseases (e.g., HIV-associated CD8 encephalitis)
• Features more than 4,000 stunning, high-resolution radiologic images and 100+ detailed, full-color medical illustrations, all of which are annotated to describe the most clinically significant features; and includes robust, digital-only galleries that contain hundreds of additional images that further illustrate each chapter
• Includes up-to-date nomenclature based on the 5th edition of the WHO Classification of Tumors, Central Nervous System, including a complete revision, expansion, and updating of CNS neoplasms with new entities, revised grading criteria, diagnostic molecular pathology, and nomenclature
• Contains Dr. Osborn’s trademark summary boxes for a quick review of essential facts, signature graphics with additional radiological and pathologic correlations, and up-to-the-minute literature references

Review

“This book covers a comprehensive understanding of neuroanatomy by appreciating gross anatomy and radiographic images. It is written in a way to better understand the epidemiology and pathophysiology of the disease process with gross illustrations and radiographic images. This third edition replaces the second published in 2017 and includes more images.” ©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Shyam Majmundar, MD (Thomas Jefferson University)

Review

Complete, up-to-date coverage of the brain as only Anne G. Osborn can provide

Contents

۱. Trauma Overview
۲. Primary Effects of CNS Trauma
۳. Secondary Effects and Sequelae of CNS Trauma
۴. Approach to Nontraumatic Hemorrhage and Vascular Lesions
۵. Spontaneous Parenchymal Hemorrhage
۶. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Aneurysms
۷. Vascular Malformations
۸. Arterial Anatomy and Strokes
۹. Venous Anatomy and Occlusions
۱۰. Vasculopathy
۱۱. Approach to Infection, Inflammation, and Demyelination
۱۲. Congenital, Acquired Pyogenic, and Acquired Viral Infections
۱۳. Tuberculosis and Fungal, Parasitic, and Other Infections
۱۴. HIV/AIDS
۱۵. Demyelinating and Inflammatory Diseases
۱۶. Introduction to CNS Neoplasms and Nonneoplastic Cysts
۱۷. Adult-Type Diffuse Gliomas
۱۸. Pediatric-Type Diffuse Low-Grade Gliomas
۱۹. Pediatric-Type Diffuse High-Grade Gliomas
۲۰. Circumscribed Astrocytic Gliomas
۲۱. Glioneuronal and Neuronal Tumors
۲۲. Ependymal Tumors
۲۳. Choroid Plexus Tumors
۲۴. Embryonal Tumors
۲۵. Pineal and Germ Cell Tumors
۲۶. Cranial Nerve Tumors
۲۷. Meningiomas and Melanocytic Lesions
۲۸. Mesenchymal, Nonmeningothelial Tumors
۲۹. Hematolymphoid and Hematopoietic Tumors
۳۰. Sellar Region Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions
۳۱. Metastases and Paraneoplastic Syndromes
۳۲. Nonneoplastic Cysts
۳۳. Miscellaneous Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions
۳۴. Approach to Toxic, Metabolic, Degenerative, and CSF Disorders
۳۵. Toxic Encephalopathy
۳۶. Inherited Metabolic Disorders
۳۷. Acquired Metabolic and Systemic Disorders
۳۸. Dementias and Brain Degenerations
۳۹. Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders
۴۰. Approach to Congenital Malformations
۴۱. Posterior Fossa Malformations
۴۲. Commissural and Cortical Maldevelopment
۴۳. Holoprosencephalies, Related Disorders, and Mimics
۴۴. Genetic Tumor Syndromes Involving the CNS
۴۵. Vascular Neurocutaneous Syndromes
۴۶. Anomalies of the Skull and Meninges