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(Contemporary Neurology Series.) By Bryce Weir. 301 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. $120. ISBN 0-19-512875-3.

Written by an internationally recognized authority on the management of subarachnoid hemorrhage, this monograph has a well-crafted text complemented by figures and tables of high quality. The book's 12 chapters are divided into three sections. The first section covers the history of the disorder and economic and medicolegal aspects, and the second and third sections cover aneurysmal and nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, respectively.

The second section is the heart of the book. An up-to-date chapter on epidemiology and diseases associated with intracranial saccular aneurysms introduces the topic. Subsequent chapters deal with the anatomical features of aneurysms, the physiology of aneurysmal rupture . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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