This series of yearly books on Advances in Neurotraumatology is being published under the auspices of the Scientific Committee of Neuro- traumatology of the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons. For some years neurotraumatology was perhaps too much looked upon as a secondary part of neurosurgery. But the constant increase of cases has provoked a renewal of interest all over the world, involving not only neurosurgeons but also any surgeon who...