Modern Neurosurgical Giants
Modern Neurosurgical Giants
Neurosurgery
2.Gestational: 1879-1919
transition into distinct profession
Sedalia , Missouri
‘Penfield dissector’
“Montreal neurological institute”
Outlined Motor and Sensory
Homonculus using stimulation studies
Established role of Cortical Excision in
treatment of medical refractory epilepsy,
specially in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
Also wrote Novel “No other God”
Falconer :
- En bloc temporal lobectomy with
excision of uncus, hippocampus and
amygdala.
Rasmussen:-
- modified technique to reduce
morbidity and mortality and improve
outcome of epilepsy surgery.
- also describe intramedullary
tumors of spine and surgical considerations
A Earl Walker
1907- 1995
Born: Winnipeg, Canada
neurocirurgia-rinaldosouto.blogspot.in
University of Chicago1937-47
Johns Hopkins Hospital,1947-onwards
Stereotactic or functional neurosurgery
Post traumatic epilepsy
Anatomic studies on thalamic systems
Dandy Walker syndrome
Walker-Warburg Syndrome
William H Sweet
1910-2001,Born- Kerriston, Washington
Harvard Medical School
Neurosurgical Training under Dr. Percival Bailey.
alumni.neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/chiefs
Massachusetts General Hospital
+ Gordon Brownell- PET
Boron Neutron Capture therapy for brain tumors
Pituitary stalk section –
◦ diabetic retinopathy
Percutaneous thermal rhizotomy
◦ Trigeminal neuralgia
hypothermia during neurosurgical operations
First carotid bifurcation reconstruction
Died due to complication of Parkinson’s
disease
Lars Leksell
(1907-1986)
Swedish,
www.gammaknifecenter.org
Neurosurgery
Serafimer Hospital,Stockholm
Students-Leksell and Lundberg
First successful surgery for intracranial
AVM.
Facial Nerve preservation in Acoustic
tumors
First used power suction
Jules Hardy
genealogie.hardy.pagesperso-orange.fr
Born,1932, Sorel
Prof. at Notre-Dame Hospital and University
of Montreal
Trans sphenoidal pituitary surgery with
Peroperative Fluoroscopy , Microscope and
Microinstrumentation.
First to recognize small intrapituitary
lesions “Micoradenomas”
Ossama Al-Mefty
Skull base surgery, meningioma,
neurosurgery.org
Born,1944 , Germany
en.wikipedia.org
Director , Barrow Neurological Institute,
Arizona
Atlas of Microneurosurgery
Vascular surgery
Skull base surgery
Spetzler –martin grading for AVM
Neuroendoscopy
1910- L’ Espinasse- 1st NSx endoscope
◦ Fulguration of choroid plexus
Guido Guglielmi :
Detachable Coil(GDC)
Pierre Lasjaunias:
Expertise in treating Vein of Galen
Malformation
pediatric arteriovenous malformation.
MADJID SAMII
Born,1937.Tehran wikipedia.org
Medical education,MMC-1973
Residency –Cincinnati college,pittsburgh
Professor, University of Washington.
Skull base tumors(meningioma, chordoma,
acoustic neuroma)
President of WFNS, Skull Base Societies
Aneurysmal , A-V malformation surgery
Surgery for trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial
spasm-Microvascular Decompression
PROF. JACOB CHANDY
1910-2007
1949- First Department of Neurosurgery in neurosurgery.org