Our Experiences With Neurovascular Intervention at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 1976-1996
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1Former Professor of Neurosurgery, Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital; Senior Consultant, Endovascular Neurosurgery, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Abstract:
The Department of Neurosurgery at KEM Hospital, Seth G S Medical College, Mumbai, was founded by Dr H. M. Dastur in 1956. The department from its inception performed all diagnostic Neuro-Radiological procedures, angiography, ventriculography, pneumo-encephalography, and myelography. In 1976 transfemoral cerebral angiography was started by Dr S K Pandya. In 1978 he started performing interventional procedures. In 1980, Dr Anil Karapurkar went for training in Neuro-Intervention to Nancy, France, under Prof. Luc Picard. Thereafter all neurointerventions, cranial, and spinal, were performed routinely.