Microneurosurgery: Avm of the Brain, History, Embryology, Pathological Considerations, Hemodynamics, Diagnostic Studies, Microsurgical Anatomy

by Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil

Volume IVB describes surgical approaches, strategies, and management techniques for specific tumors in their typical locations, surgical outcomes and results, instruments, and laboratory training. It covers also the related disciplines neuroradiology and neuroanesthesia. The last installment in this well-known series.

408 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

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.