History of diagnosis and treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

The pioneers of microsurgery created a new world of neurosurgery through their efforts, including attention to anatomic details, physiologic principles, and technical maneuvers. The impact of microsurgery and the ability to teach it to successive generations of neurosurgeons during the last 25 years are surely the material from which the future history of neurosurgery will be written.