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This book provides recent progress of neuroendovascular surgery, which is a minimally invasive treatment of cerebral aneurysms. Great advances have been made in the techniques, devices and large randomized clinical trials showing striking therapeutic benefit for cerebral aneurysms. The treatment of cerebral aneurysms has also seen substantial evolution, increasing the number of aneurysms that can be treated successfully with minimally invasive therapy. In the 17 chapters, authors introduce the techniques, devices, device structures and therapeutic concepts.
Attendings, fellows, residents, medical students or anyone interested in sharpening their diagnostic and therapeutic skill set will benefit from reading this text. This book will include many clinical cases and skills and clinical concepts, which will benefit professional /practitioner.
About the author
Dr. Xianli Lv, MD, is an associate professor of neurointervention, Department of Neurosurgery, at Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, in Beijing (China). His research focuses on neuroendovascular therapy of intracranial aneurysm, cerebral arteriovenous malformation, intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula, spinal vascular malformation and pediatric cerebrospinal vascular malformation. He has authored 195 peer-reviewed scientific articles indexed in international databases. He is an editorial member of the journals: Interventional Neuroradiology, Stroke and Vascular Neurology, Journal of Neuroradiology and The Neuroradiology Journal. He is also a deputy editor of Neuroscience Informatics and Fronteriors in Neurology. Dr. Lv is a senior member of the World Federation of Interventional Therapeutic Neuroradiology (WFITN) and consultant for BALT, Montmorency, France.
