Edited by
Y. Yonekawa, Y. Sakurai, E. Keller, and T. Tsukahara

2005

In the last years progress has been made in stroke treatment. In July 2004 specialists in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, neurology and neurointensive care discussed recent trends at the 2nd Swiss Japanese Joint Conference on Cerebral Stroke Surgery held in Zurich, Switzerland. Prof. Dr. Y. Yonekawa, Zurich and Prof. D. Y. Sakurai, Sendai were the presidents of the conference.