Publications by authors named "Leonard I Malis"
A major concern in surgery is the prevention or control of bleeding. The ligature and the clip are the hallmarks of the last century of modern surgery. Therapeutic embolization is not really used to stop hemorrhage but to treat aneurysms and so prevent future rupture and bleeding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObject: The goal of this study was to summarize the author's personal experience in the surgical treatment of 19 patients with intramedullary spinal cord hemangioblastomas.
Methods: All cases were from the author's private practice and were treated between 1967 and 1990. In all cases the intramedullary hemangioblastomas were totally removed by using a unique microsurgical technique of bipolar coagulation, which is fully described in this paper.