MD, Neurosurgeon, Divisão de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Santa Teresa, Petrópolis RJ, Brazil; MD, Neurosurgeon, Serviço de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Público Municipal de Macaé, Macaé RJ, Brazil; MD, Neurosurgery Resident, Serviço de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Municipal Souza Aguiar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil; MD, Pathologist, Hospital da Beneficência Portuguesa de Campos dos Goytacazes, Campos dos Goyta...

OBJECTIVE To assess communication between vascular neurosurgeons and their patients with unruptured cerebral aneurysms about treatment options and expected outcomes. METHODS Vascular neurosurgeons and their patients with cerebral aneurysms were surveyed immediately following outpatient appointments in a neurosurgery clinic. Data collected included how well the patient understood their aneurys...

Permit me at once to convey Yale's greetings to McGill on the occasion of this highly significant ceremony. At the same time, since I have been asked to speak briefly about the surgery of the nervous system, I may, unsolicited, venture to bring to you the felicitations of the enlarging group of surgeons who restrict themselves to this specialty in our two adjoining countries. The frontiers whic...

BACKGROUND Neurosurgeons are often not involved in the management of patients with stroke in Nigeria. OBJECTIVE To discuss the role of neurosurgeons in the management of ischaemic stroke. METHODS We looked at the contributions that a neurosurgeon may be able to make in the care of the patient with an ischaemic stroke. The emphasis was on preventive and curative interventions in the surgical...

Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neurology at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil (FCMMG), Professor of Neurology at PUC/MG, Neurosurgeon at SEMPER and Vera Cruz Hospitals, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil; Undergraduating in Medicine, Neuroanatomy monitor at FCMMG; Professor of Neuroanatomy and Neurology at FCMMG, Chief of the Neurosurgery Service at SEMPER Hospital,...