Pathogenesis and Treatment of Cerebrovascular Disease: Seventh Annual Scientific Meeting of the Houston Neurological Society, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas

The contributors have synthesized the latest knowledge dealing with an almost overwhelming scope of disease processes, i.e., occlusive disease, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and intracranial aneurysms, with a fine review of the anatomy and embryology of the cerebrovascular tree. The stimulating section on occlusive disease uses nearly a half of the entire volume. The chapters dealing with the metabolic and biochemical alteration underlying atherosclerosis are basic, for it would seem that future answers and prevention of this devastating atherosclerotic process lie here. A review of the clinical syndromes in cerebral arterial occlusion are presented in considerable completeness with the signs and symptoms in one column and the anatomical structures involved in an adjacent column. The point is made that neurological deficits can occur from occlusive disease in vessels remote from the brain itself, yet capable of affecting dynamically, regional cerebral blood flow. The use of angiographic techniques to spot these