Angiographic Localization of Intracranial Masses.

Abstract

This book is a companion volume to "The Normal Cerebral Angiogram," which Dr. Ecker wrote in 1951. Like the previous book, it is a reference atlas, composed of a series of cerebral angiograms in proved cases of intracranial masses. Part 1, "Orientation," consists of a single chapter including diagrams of the normal cerebral vascular pattern in different projections, followed by line drawings and descriptions of the vascular displacements produced by masses in each region. Part 2, "Localization," illustrates the effect of a mass in various regions on the local vascular pattern. The classical appearance is generalized in diagrammatic form at the beginning of each chapter, and the subsequent roentgenographic illustrations are supplemented in many instances by reproductions of the plain films, pneumograms, surgical exposures, and pathological specimens. The arbitrary division of intracranial masses into 27 regional sites is justified on the grounds of the distinctive changes in the vascular pattern