Microneurosurgery (CNS Tumors : Surgical Anatomy, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology, Neurophysiology, Clinical Considerations, Operability, Treatment Options

by Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil, P. Roth (Illustrator)

Volume IVA examines in detail the fields of functional and morphologic neuroanatomy, neuropathology, and neurophysiology, providing a comprehensive basis for the evaluation of findings from advanced neuroimaging techniques. The author and his collaborators on this volume show how innovative concepts in the areas mentioned above can be used to redefine the operability of CNS tumors.

396 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

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.