Controversies in neurological surgery: neurovascular diseases

In recent years innovation in treatments for neurovascular diseases has been coupled with great controversy. This text provides insights into current trends and controversial issues regarding state-of-the-art techniques in neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology, and endovascular surgery, with a special focus on cerebral aneurysm treatment, brain arteriovenous malformations, dural arteriovenous fistulas, management of vasospasm, and ischemic stroke therapy.

The authors confront such controversial questions as: Are unruptured aneurysms managed most effectively by neurosurgical clipping or endovascular coiling? Is surgery or endovascular coiling the best treatment for ruptured cerebral aneurysms of the anterior or posterior cerebral circulation? In managing arteriovenous malformations and fistulas, should clinicians use neurointerventional techniques or surgery, or a combination of both? With contributions from well-respected experts in the field, this book provides the clinician with the most detailed information available on the consequent risks and benefits of each technique.

Controversies in Neurological Surgery: Neurovascular Diseases also offers you the opportunity to earn valuable CME credit online. Neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neurologists, vascular surgeons, and specialists will find the book's balanced coverage of critical current issues in neurosurgery an indispensable aid in making informed decisions.

Trends in neurovascular surgery / Brian A. O'Shaughnessy [and others] -- Trends in endovascular surgery / Demetrius K. Lopes [and others] -- Novel approaches to neurovascular diseases / Michael L. DiLuna, Katie Pricola, and Murat Gunel -- Implications of trends in the marketplace for neurovascular diseases / Charles B. Wilson -- Neuroendovascular diseases: past, present, and future / Joseph M. Fitzgerald and Daniel Tuden -- Unruptured aneurysms: a neurological perspective / Nerissa U. Ko and Daryl R. Gress -- Unruptured aneurysms: a surgical perspective / Chirag D. Gandhi, Aman B. Patel, and Joshua B. Bederson -- Surgical treatment of anterior circulation aneurysms / G. Edward Vates and Art Day Shankar -- Endovascular treatment of anterior circulation aneurysms / Reza Jahan, Gary Duckwiler, and Fernando Vinuela -- Surgical considerations of posterior circulation aneurysms / Howard A. Riina and Robert F. Spetzler -- Endovascular treatment of posterior circulation aneurysms / Italo Linfante, Cole Blease Graham, III, and Ajay K. Wakhloo -- Treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations / Andrew Jea, Mustafa K. Bakaya, and Roberto C. Heros -- Endovascular treatment of arteriovenous…