TY - JOUR
T1 - Alfred J Luessenhop and the dawn of a new superspecialty
T2 - Endovascular neurosurgery
AU - Maiti, Tanmoy Kumar
AU - Bir, Shyamal Chandra
AU - Bollam, Papireddy
AU - Nanda, Anil
PY - 2016/2
Y1 - 2016/2
N2 - Endovascular neurosurgery, or interventional neuroradiology, has developed rapidly over the last 50 years and has posed a challenge to the established mode of open surgery. Alfred J Luessenhop, an American neurosurgeon, is credited with the first embolization of a cranial arteriovenous malformation and the first intracranial arterial catheterization to occlude an aneurysm. This review describes the life and work of the surgeon who can be regarded as the father of endovascular neurosurgery.
AB - Endovascular neurosurgery, or interventional neuroradiology, has developed rapidly over the last 50 years and has posed a challenge to the established mode of open surgery. Alfred J Luessenhop, an American neurosurgeon, is credited with the first embolization of a cranial arteriovenous malformation and the first intracranial arterial catheterization to occlude an aneurysm. This review describes the life and work of the surgeon who can be regarded as the father of endovascular neurosurgery.
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U2 - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011532
DO - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011532
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25540179
AN - SCOPUS:84990866201
SN - 1759-8478
VL - 8
SP - 216
EP - 220
JO - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
JF - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
IS - 2
ER -