Jabbour (neurological surgery, Thomas Jefferson U. Hospital) assembles a group of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and interventional radiologists from the US, who outline open and endovascular surgical techniques for treating neurovascular diseases, such as brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, cavernomas, stroke, and vascular abnormalities of the spinal cord, for neurosurgeons, neurologists, interventional radiologists, and medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and physician assistants. The 25 chapters cover the basic arterial and venous anatomy of the brain, microsurgical instruments, endovascular tools, and imaging advances, then open surgical and endovascular techniques for each disease chapter, along with chapters on complication avoidance, flow diversion, liquid embolic agents in the treatment of aneurysms, the biomechanics of cerebral aneurysms, and the use of cerebral blood flow measurements. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)