It was a busy week in New Orleans for Dr. Connolly, who attended the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, along with many of his colleagues. Dr. Connolly shared his expertise by teaching three different courses--one on cranial vascular malformations, one on managing neurological...

Venous malformations, or developmental venous anomalies, represent variant development of the cerebral veins. A venous malformation is usually composed of a single dilated, tortuous collecting vein with radially-oriented subcortical medullary veins. While venous malformations of the brain are quite...

A vascular malformation is an abnormal collection or tangle of blood vessels. The malformations restrict or alter blood flow and are associated with the degeneration of neurons. In some such tangles, arteries, which supply oxygen-rich blood to tissue, are interconnected with veins, which move oxy...

Dr. Solomon has specialized in the surgical treatment of cerebrovascular diseases since 1986, and has operated on more cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations than any surgeon in the tri-state area.  His special interests are in the identification and definitive treatment of cerebral...