| NI FEATURE: CITADELS SCULPTING FUTURE |
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| Year : 2021 | Volume
: 69
| Issue : 1 | Page : 4--11 |
Our Experiences With Neurovascular Intervention at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 1976-1996
Anil Pandurang Karapurkar
Former Professor of Neurosurgery, Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital; Senior Consultant, Endovascular Neurosurgery, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Anil Pandurang Karapurkar
6 Jasville, New Marine Lines, Mumbai - 400 020, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.310072
The Department of Neurosurgery at KEM Hospital, Seth G S Medical College, Mumbai, was founded by Dr H. M. Dastur in 1956. The department from its inception performed all diagnostic Neuro-Radiological procedures, angiography, ventriculography, pneumo-encephalography, and myelography. In 1976 transfemoral cerebral angiography was started by Dr S K Pandya. In 1978 he started performing interventional procedures. In 1980, Dr Anil Karapurkar went for training in Neuro-Intervention to Nancy, France, under Prof. Luc Picard. Thereafter all neurointerventions, cranial, and spinal, were performed routinely.
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