Yasargil Microneurosurgery Study Guide: Books I, II, IIIA, IIIB, IVA, and IVB

By Leonard Kranzler and Aikaterini Panteli

Yasargil Microneurosurgery Study Guide is designed for effective learning and study of the neurosurgical principles contained in seminal microneurosurgery textbooks. From normal microsurgical anatomy to aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and CNS tumor microsurgery, this study guide provides a question-and-answer format to knowledge of the background, anatomy, and techniques of microneurosurgery. This work is a practical guide to the application of microneurosurgery to a variety of brain conditions, including intracranial aneurysms, extrinsic and intrinsic tumors, while providing guidance on instrumentation and equipment, neuroanesthesia, complications, and more. This practical book is ideal for neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuroanatomists, and other technical experts with a clinical interest in brain microsurgery.

• Provides a fill-in the blanks format structure of question and answers to test microneurosurgery learning
• Discusses pathology, physiology, imaging and treatment protocols in neurosurgery
• Details acronyms to help provide memory cues
• Allows readers to test their knowledge of neurosurgical anatomy, techniques, equipment, and more
• Ideal for both neurosurgeons, neurosurgical residents, and others working in the field of microneurosurgery

• Language: English
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Release date: May 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9780443186370

Leonard Kranzler

Dr. Kranzler earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School where he also completed the neurosurgery residence program. He also holds a JD and LLM in Health Law from Loyola University. Since 1974 he has been coordinator of the Chicago Review Course in Neurological Surgery. Author of two books in Neurosurgery, and a deep interest in neurosurgical education, he was clinical professor of surgery (neurosurgery) at the University of Chicago. His clinical interests involve trauma, minimally invasive spine surgery, trigeminal neuralgia, pituitary tumors and pediatric neurosurgery.

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Preface

Dr. Yaşargil published his masterwork, Microneurosurgery, over a period of years from 1984 to 1996. It remains the most detailed comprehensive treatment of the subject and it does so in an elegant manner. The writing is clear and concise. The radiographs and diagrams depict the anatomy with precision and are on the page that refers to them in the text. The books deserve to be considered art books because of their beauty and classic neurosurgical texts because of their accuracy and influence in the development of neurosurgery.

Dr. Yaşargil is not only a master surgeon and a superb author but also an electrifying lecturer. Those who were present will never forget that his 2-h presentations in tumor surgery at the Chicago Review Course scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. continued with an intensely involved audience until 12 midnight. He has without doubt been the master neurosurgical teacher of this generation and it certainly is time to introduce the next generation to his works.

Our current contribution is an effort to highlight the principles Dr. Yaşargil elucidated and put them in a format that encourages each student (and that means all of) to fill in the blanks with the correct word demonstrating mastery of the subject matter. This method also makes review of large amounts of material rapid and efficient. You will know if you do not know and can concentrate on learning those details. Most of what you encounter, you will be familiar with because these principles have become the standard knowledge of the modern neurosurgeon. You will learn the origin of these principles, the logic of their development, and what you did not know and learn here will make the effort exciting and worthwhile.

Leonard I. Kranzler, MD

Aikaterini Panteli, MD

Aikaterini Panteli, born and raised in Athens, Greece, earned her medical degree in the Faculty of Medicine, University Gr. T Popa, Iasi, Romania. She continued to receive her neurosurgical training and board certification from the Red Cross Hospital, Athens, in 2012.

In June 2014, after completing the 5th Istanbul Microneurosurgery Course, she was accepted as a research fellow in the Neurosurgery Department of Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, under the supervision of Professor M. Gazi Yaşargil, MD, and Professor Uğur Türe, MD.

She is currently a PhD Neuroscience candidate and, since December 2014, has been enjoying the challenges of teaching neurosurgery, neuroanatomy, cardiovascular, and respiratory system anatomy to the undergraduate medical students in Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Aikaterini Panteli, MD

Section I

Microsurgical anatomy of the basal cisterns and vessels of the brain, diagnostic studies, general operative techniques, and pathological considerations of the intracranial aneurysms

Outline

Chapter 1. Operative Anatomy

Chapter 2. Diagnostic studies for ruptured aneurysms

Chapter 3. General operative techniques

Chapter 4. Anesthesia for microsurgical procedures in neurosurgery

Chapter 5. Pathological considerations

Chapter 1: Operative Anatomy

Abstract

This chapter offers questions based on the first chapter of IA volume concerning the essential neurosurgical anatomy of the subarachnoid cisterns and their contents, the supratentorial and infratentorial intracranial arteries with their course and relations, the basal perforated zones, and the anatomy of the cerebral veins.

Keywords

Anatomy; Basal ganglia; Cerebellum; Cerebral veins; Cerebrum; Intracranial arteries; Subarachnoid cisterns

Subarachnoid cisterns

Normal cisternal anatomy