Micro-Vasuclar Surgery.

Donaghy, Raymond Madiford Peardon & Yasargil, Mahmut Gazi (Eds.)

Publication Date: 1967

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Stuttgart, Georg Thieme Verlag & St. Louis, Mo., The C.V. Mosby Company, 1967, 8°, XII, 171 pp., 217 illustrations, orig. kart. Einband. Report of First Conference, October 6.-7, 1966 ;ary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Vermont. "Theodore Kurze (1922-2002), at the University of Southern California, became the first neurosurgeon to use the microscope in the operating room on August 1,1957. He removed a neurilemoma of the seventh cranial nerve in a 5-year-old patient, learning how to use the microscope from a year of practicing middle ear dissections in William House's (1923-2012) laboratory. Early support for the operating microscope in neurosurgery was similar to the endoscope's acceptance several decades later, with some even saying that it was "ridiculous" to bring it into the operating room. This perspective changed through several early supporters, one of whom was Gazi Yasargil. In 1966 Hugo Krayenbühl (1902-1985), chief of neurosurgery in Zurich, Switzerland, sent Yasargil to R.M.P. Donaghy's (1910-1991) microsurgical laboratory in Vermont. There, Yasargil spent a year perfecting his microsurgical techniques, including the superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery bypass in animals, which he then successfully performed in a human on October 30,1967. Together, Donaghy and Yasargil organized the first microvascular symposium in October 1966. Yasargil, perhaps more than anyone, adapted the ideas of surgeons such as Kurze, Jacobson, and Donaghy and developed microsurgery into an integral part of modern neurosurgery. Ultimately, improved illumination and magnification allowed better precision from the surgeon and his technique, resulting in significant changes to the frontotemporal craniotomy in this same era." Ryan Ormond & Costas G. Hadjipanayis: The history of neurosurgery and its relation to the development and refinement of the frontotemporal craniotomy. Neurosurg Focus 36 (April 2014). Seller Inventory # 64170

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Title: Micro-Vasuclar Surgery.

Publication Date: 1967

Binding: Soft cover