Microsurgery: Applied to Neurosurgery

by Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil

Professor Yasargil exemplifies the 'operative neurosurgeon' in whom a brilliant mind and a developed soul guide gifted hands... - Ossama Al-Mefty, M.D. Thieme is proud to present this reprint of M. G. Yasargil's seminal work in Microneurosurgery. Professor Yasargil began his neurosurgical residency at the University of Zurich more than 50 years ago. During the course of his remarkable career, he was instrumental in developing and refining many of the tools and techniques that even today remain indispensable gold standards in treatment. In 1999 the journal Neurosurgery honored him as Neurosurgery's Man of the Century 1950-1999. Professor Yasargil's lifetime achievements Professor Yasargil's genius in developing microsurgical techniques for use in cerebrovascular neurosurgery has transformed the outcomes of patients with conditions that were previously inoperable. In this volume, you will witness the establishment of a major plateau in the evolution of modern neurosurgery. Original copyright 1969

230 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours with instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993 he was first resident, chief resident and then professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999 he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting. He was a founding member of Eurasian Academy. He is regarded as one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the modern age.