1. Editorial introduction

   • L. Calliauw

   EditorialNotes Pages: 115 - 115

2. Preface

   • Bernd Richling

   EditorialNotes Pages: 117 - 118

3. Clinical experience with a new pressure-adjustable shunt valve

   • A. Reinprecht
   • T. Czech
   • W. Dietrich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 124

4. Cephaloceles — Experience with 42 patients

   • T. Czech
   • A. Reinprecht
   • P. Vorkapic

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 129

5. Surgical management of pineal region tumors

   • J. N. Bruce
   • B. M. Stein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 130 - 135

6. Outcomes analysis in cranial base surgery — Preliminary results

   • B. Holmes
   • L. Sekhar
   • D. C. Wright

   OriginalPaper Pages: 136 - 138

7. The retrosigmoid approach to acoustic neurinomas: Technical, strategic, and future concepts

   • C. Matula
   • J. Diaz Day
   • W. T. Koos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 147

8. Acoustic neurinomas associated with vascular compression syndromes

   • M. Samii
   • C. Matthies

   OriginalPaper Pages: 148 - 154

9. The far lateral-combined supra- and infratentorial approach: Clinical experience

   • H. Z. Baldwin
   • R. F. Spetzler
   • C. P. Daspit

   OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 158

10. Failure in management of pituitary tumors discussion of 3 cases

    • B. Sutter
    • M. Steiner
    • L. Steiner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 166

11. Gamma knife surgery for craniopharyngioma

    • D. Prasad
    • M. Steiner
    • L. Steiner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 176

12. GDC-system embolization for brain aneurysms — Location and follow-up

    • B. Richling
    • A. Gruber
    • M. Killer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 183

13. Endosaccular occlusion of basilar artery bifurcation aneurysms using electrically detachable coils

    • G. Bavinzski
    • B. Richling
    • D. Levy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 184 - 189

14. Endoscopically assisted microneurosurgery

    • C. Matula
    • M. Tschabitscher
    • W. T. Koos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 190 - 195

15. Video-assisted endoscopic spinal surgery: Thoracoscopic discectomy

    • A. Caputy
    • J. Starr
    • C. Riedel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 196 - 199

16. Cavernous angiomas of the spinal cord clinical presentation, surgical strategy, and postoperative results

    • U. Spetzger
    • J. M. Gilsbach
    • H. Bertalanffy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 200 - 206

17. Microsurgical anterior decompression and internal fixation with iliac bone graft and titanium plates for treatment of cervical intervertebral disc herniation

    • M. Mühlbauer
    • W. Saringer
    • M. Sunder-Plassmann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 207 - 213

18. Diagnostic value of stereotactic biopsy of cerebral lesions in patients with AIDS

    • F. Alesch
    • Ch. Armbruster
    • H. Budka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 214 - 219

19. Forthcoming meetings

    Announcement Pages: 220 - 221

20. Computer-assisted multidimensional atlas for functional stereotaxy

    • F. Alesch
    • W. Th. Koos

    Erratum Pages: 221 - 221