Vascular Malformations of the Central Nervous System

Part 1 Basic considerations: central nervous system vascular malformations through history, Sunghoon Lee and Issam A. Awad; vascular anatomy of the central nervous system, Rocco A. Armonda and Robert H. Rosenwasser; developmental vascular embryology of central nervous system, R. Loch Macdonald and Lydia M. Johns; biology of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, John H. Wong et al; pathology and classification of central nervous system vascular malformations, Jeffrey S. Henn et al; intacranial arteriovenous malformations - pathophysiology and haemodynamics, William L. Young. Part 2 Clinical aspects and diagnostic considerations: epidemiology and natural history of vascular malformations of the central nervous system, Robert D. Brown, Jr.; clinical syndromes -haemorrhage, epilepsy and focal neurological deficits, David G. Brock; clinical syndromes - spinal vascular malformations, John H. Wong and Issam A. Awad; clinical syndromes - familial lesions and multiorgan vascular malformations, Pierre B. Fayad; diagnostic evaluation - computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, Thomas R. Marotta and Gary Redekop; diagnostic evaluation -catheter angiography, Peter Kim Nelson and Linda Heier; diagnostic evaluation - functional imaging, Michael Hutchinson. Part 3 Therapeutic aspects: intracranial vascular malformations -clinical decisions and multimodality management strategies, Jafar J. Jafar et al; anaesthetic considerations, Irene Osborn and Gabor Simon; microsurgical anatomy of arteriovenous malformations, Helder Teeschi et al; preoperative planning, A. Giancarlo Vishteh et al; surgical approaches - convexity and Sylvian lesions, Jafar J. Jafar and Paul P. Huang; surgical approaches - interhemispheric lesions, Steven D. Chang and Gary K. Steinberg; surgical approaches - deep and intraventricular lesions, Daniel L. Barrow and Cargill H. Alleyne, Jr.; surgical approaches - infratentorial and brain stem lesions, Carlos A. David et al; surgical approaches - dural lesions, Adam I. Lewis and John M. Tew, Jr.; prevention and management of therapeutic complications, Roberto C. Heros; preoperative embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations, John C. Chaloupka; embolization as palliative or definitive therapy, Robert H. Rosenwasser and Rocco A. Armonda; spinal vascular malformations - angiographic diagnosis and neuroendovascular treatment, Peter Kim Nelson and Arani Bose; endovascular treatment of dural AVMs, Todd A. Kuether et al; radiobiology of vascular malformation radiosurgery, John C. Flickinger et al; radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations, William A. Fridman and Vivek Deshmukh; radiosurgery for cavernous malformations, Douglas S. Kondziolka and L. Dade Lunsford. Part 4 Outcome considerations: predicting natural and therapeutic risk, Bernd Richling; relevant factors for outcomes assessment of vascular malformations of the central nervous system, Robert E. Harbaugh; quality of life issues in vascular malformations of the central nervous sys