Pathology and surgery around the vertebral artery
This is the first comprehensive book about surgery on and around the vertebral artery all along its cervical and intracranial course. This vessel has been considered for long as out of surgical reach leaving many different pathologies not or incompletely
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Bernard George Michaël Bruneau Robert F. Spetzler
Pathology and surgery around the vertebral artery
Bernard George, MD Professor and Chairman Department of Neurosurgery Hôpital Lariboisière Paris France
Michaël Bruneau, MD, PhD Associate Professor Department of Neurosurgery Erasme University Hospital Université Libre de Bruxelles Belgium
Robert F. Spetzler, MD Director and J. N. Harber Chairman of Neurological Surgery Barrow Neurological Institute Phoenix, Arizona and Professor, Section of Neurosurgery Department of Surgery University of Arizona College of Medicine Tuscon, Arizona USA
ISBN 978-2-287-89786-3 Springer Paris Berlin Heidelberg New York © Springer-Verlag France, Paris, 2011
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List of contributors
List of contributors
Felipe C. Albuquerque, MD Assistant Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery Division of Neurological Surgery Barrow Neurological Institute Phoenix, AZ USA
Danielle Balériaux, MD Department of Neuroradiology Erasme University Hospital Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels Belgium
Andrei V. Alexandrov, MD Professor and Director Comprehensive Stroke Center University of Alabama Hospital Birmingham, AL USA
Hischam Bassiouni, MD Assistant Professor Vice-Director Department of Neurosurgery Westpfalz-Klinikum GmbH Hellmut-Hartert Str. 1 67665 Kaiserslautern Germany
Ossama Al-Mefty, MD, FACS Department of Neurosurgery Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School 75 Francis Street Boston, MA 02115 USA Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD Associate Professor and Program Director Co-Director, Neurovascular Surgery Department of Neurosurgery University of Illinois at Chicago Neuropsychiatric Institute (MC 799) 912 South Wood Street, Rm 451 N Chicago, IL 60612 USA Marcel Arnold, MD Department of Neurology University Hospital of Berne Berne Switzerland Samer Ayoubi, MD Department of Neurosurgery Little Rock Arkansas USA
Ludwig Benes, MD Department of Neurosurgery University Hospital of Zurich Frauenklinikstrasse 10 CH-8091 Zurich Switzerland Edward C. Benzel, MD Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery Directo