Contents: Intracranial Pressure and Mass Displacements of the Intracranial Contents. - Special Neuropathology - Morphology and Biology of the Space-Occupying and Atrophic Processes with Their Related Neuroradiological Changes of Diagnostic Significance. - Cerebral Angiography. - Pneumoencephalography. - Myelography. - Spinal Angiography. - Discography. - Ossovenography and Epidural Venography. - References. - Subject Index.

Cerebrovascular disease is today the cause of death in a fifth of the population in countries of modern technology. It seems legitimate that society expects medi- cine to analyse the causes of this menace and, as far as it is possible, to cure its sequelae and prevent its origin. Even when the patients survive, sequelae such as herni-or monoplegia, aphasia and visual deficits severely lirnit the mode of life of those afflicted. This book tries to show the methods by which medicine is striving to investi- gate and analyse the causes of this important condition-cerebrovascular disease. For...