Edited by
T. Tsukahara, G. Esposito, H.-J. Steiger, G.J.E. Rinkel, L. Regli

2014

The European-Japanese Joint Conferences for Stroke Surgery were initiated in Zürich in 2001 by Prof. Y. Sakurai and Prof. Yonekawa, under the name of “The Swiss-Japanese Joint Conference.” The second meeting was also organized in Zürich two years later. The third meeting, under the name of “The European-Japanese Joint Conferences for Stroke Surgery,” was held in 2006 in conjunction with the 70th Anniversary of the Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik Zürich. The fourth meeting was organized in Helsinki, Finland, in 2008, with Prof. Hernesniemi as the congress president. The fifth European-Japanese Joint Conferences for Stroke Surgery was organized in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2010. This volume presents the resulting original papers of the meeting.