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Contents 23 Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotics. . . . . . . 466 Hossam Abdou, Natalia S. Kubicki, Hugo Bonatti and Stephen M. Kavic General Principles 466 Selected Laparoscopic Procedures 470 Robotic Technology 476 24 Bariatric Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 Nicole Shockcor and Mark D. Kligman General Principles 480 Surgical Treatment of Obesity 481 25 Head and Neck Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 Jeffrey S. Wolf Anatomy 488 Disease Processes 491 Head and Neck Cancer 501

Benign Parotid Neoplasms 513 Review Questions for Part VI 515 Answers and Explanations 527

Part VII: Surgical Subspecialties

26 Neurosurgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 Kenneth M. Crandall and Charles A. Sansur General Principles 536 Evaluating the Neurosurgical Patient 540 Head Injury 541 Spinal Cord Injury 545 Neurovascular Disease 547 Central Nervous System Tumors 549

Functional Neurosurgery 555 Degenerative Spine Disease 556 Tumors of the Spine 559

Spinal Deformity 561 Peripheral Nerves 561