Vertebrobasilar Ischemia and Hemorrhage, 2nd Edition

Vertebrobasilar Ischemia and Hemorrhage: Clinical Findings, Diagnosis and Management of Posterior Circulation Disease

This comprehensive review of vascular disease in the vertebrobasilar circulation is based on Dr. Louis R. Caplan’s extensive experience and observation of patients from the New England Medical Center posterior circulation stroke registry. It benefits from an organized, uniform, and coherent analysis of all types of vascular disease involving the posterior circulation, presented by a single author who is one of the world’s leading authorities on this topic. This new edition is fully updated throughout, including a review of all the literature published on this topic since the previous edition in 1996. There are major rewrites for the chapters on diagnosis and therapy, inclusion of modern imaging techniques, and extensive illustrations. Essential reading for stroke physicians and neurologists, the book will also be an important source of reference for neurosurgeons, vascular surgeons and endovascular radiologists.

Table of Contents

Section I General Features of Cerebrovascular Disease in the Posterior Circulation
Chapter 1 Historical background
Chapter 2 Basic anatomy and pathology
Chapter 3 Signs and symptoms and their clinical localization
Chapter 4 Diagnosis: clinical, imaging, and laboratory
Chapter 5 Treatment

Section II Posterior Circulation Ischemia: Specific Vascular Sites and Conditions
Chapter 6 Extracranial occlusive disease: innominate, subclavian, and vertebral arteries
Chapter 7 Intracranial vertebral arteries and the proximal intracranial territory
Chapter 8 Basilar artery
Chapter 9 Posterior cerebral arteries
Chapter 10 Penetrating arteries
Chapter 11 Cerebellar infarcts
Chapter 12 Migraine
Chapter 13 Venous and dural sinus thrombosis

Section III Posterior Circulation Hemorrhage
Chapter 14 Parenchymatous hemorrhage
Chapter 15 Subarachnoid hemorrhage, aneurysms, and vascular malformations