Gazi Yasargil, MD interviewed by R.M. Peardon Donaghy, MD

Dr. Yasargil provides insight to his early education, prior to the start of World War II, which focused on neuroanatomy, biochemistry, psychiatry and general surgery. He studied neurosurgery with Professor Krayenbuhl in 1950. He describes direct puncture angiography of the carotid and vertebral arteries; endarterectomy; selective angiography; the use of iron filings and polymers for aneurysms; stereotactic surgery for extrapyramidal disease and epilepsy; and the history of the surgical microscope.