Diagnostic Assessment and Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Tumors (PDF)

Fernando Guedes is Professor of Neurosurgery and Head of the Division of Neurosurgery at Gaffree e Guinle University Hospital, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. He is a member of the Deliberative Council of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery, Vice-chairman of the Peripheral Nerve Surgery Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and a member of the Teaching Commission of the Society of Neurosurgery of Rio de Janeiro. He is also a Former President of the Society of Neurosurgery of Rio de Janeiro, of the Society of Neurological Surgery of the Southern Cone, and of the Peripheral Nerve Chapter of the Latin American Federation of Societies of Neurosurgery - FLANC.

Eric L. Zager graduated magna cum laude in Biochemistry from Harvard College and received his MD degree at Stanford University. He completed residency training in Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then was awarded a Congress of Neurological Surgeons clinical fellowship to study peripheral nerve surgery with Dr. Alan Hudson at the University of Toronto and with Dr. David Kline at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. He won the Galbraith Award in Cerebrovascular Surgery in 1988, and the Young Clinician Investigator Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 1991. He has been on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 1989. Currently he holds the Endowed Chair: Neurosurgical Professorship in Academic Excellence at Penn. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, over 150 chapters and reviews, as well as edited 2 textbooks on surgical disorders of peripheral nerve.

Debora Garozzo completed her medical degree in 1989 in Palermo and her residency program in Verona. In 2006 she established an academic collaboration with the Hand Surgery Department of Huashan hospital in Shanghai and organized regular meetings on brachial plexusmicroreconstruction in collaboration with the