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Practical Neuroangiography
by Pearse Morris, 408 pp, w/illus, $99, Baltimore, Md, Williams & Wilkins, 1997.
Arch Neurol. 1998;55:879-880.
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The primary purpose of this book is to help the reader become a more competent neuroangiographer and to impart a modern perspective of neurovascular anatomy and diseases needed to make clinical decisions.
The book is divided into 4 portions. The first part is devoted to the technical and safety issues regarding neuroangiography. Chapter 1 begins with a thoughtful and interesting discussion on the historical origins of neuroangiography and early contrast agents. Chapter 2 follows with a mostly excellent and extensively detailed narrative on many of the basic techniques of performing a cerebral or spinal angiogram. The information is not encyclopedic, however, and several important omissions occur. Rather than show 2 full figure pages on "how to tie a knot" or on "wire handling," it would have been useful to describe and illustrate the various catheters and guidewires available and how and when they may be used. Also, alternative routes of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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