M. Gazi Yasargil: Father of Modern Neurosurgery

“M. Gazi Yasargil: Father of Modern Neurosurgery” details the history of neurosurgery from the 1960s through the end of the 20th century. By the late 1980s, the groundswell of change inspired by Professor Yasargil began to peak on the wings of an altogether new way to treat aneurysms, vascular malformations, and other complex pathologies. Simultaneously, those committed to the steep learning curve required by “microtechniques,” virtually all within a decade of their residencies, supplanted the old guard as the superstars of neurosurgery. Surgical morbidity and mortality tumbled to astonishingly new lows.