1961 HOUSE, William Fouts

Surgical exposure of the internal auditory canal and is contents through the middle cranial fossa.

House, an otologist, pioneered exploration of the internal auditory canal and removal of acoustic neuromas through the microscope. His success stimulated neurosurgeons to pursue the application of the operating micros…

GMN 11993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14201

1965 RAND, Robert Wheeler (1923 – 2013); KURZE, Theodore (1923 – 2002)

Microsurgical resection of acoustic tumors by a transmeatal posterior fossa approach.

"On August 1st, 1957, Theodore Kurze at the University of Southern California became the first neurosurgeon to use an operating microscope to remove a a neurilemmoma of the VIIIth nerve. The inspiration to develop thi…

GMN 11986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14194

1968 RAND, Robert Wheeler (1923 – 2013); JANNETTA, Peter Joseph (1932 – 2016)

Microneurosurgery: Application of the binocular surgical microscope in brain tumors, intracranial aneurysms, spinal cord disease, and nerve reconstruction.

GMN 11984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14192

1969 RAND, Robert Wheeler (1923 – 2013)

Microneurosurgery. Edited by Robert W. Rand.

The first textbooks on microneurosurgery by the pioneering American neurosurgeon, Robert Rand, and the pioneering Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil, both appeared in 1969.

GMN 11990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14198

1969 YASARGIL, Mahmut Gazi (1925 – ); DONAGHY, Raymond Madiford Peardon (1912 – 1991)

Microsurgery applied to neurosurgery. By M. G. Yasargil. With contributions by R.M.P. Donaghy, U.P. Fisch. J. Hardy, L.L. Malis, S. J. Peerless and M. Zingg and engineers, W.J. Borer, H. Littmann and H. R. Voellmy.

Most of the chapters in this book were written by Yasargil. Chapter one: "A history of microsurgery" by R. M. P. Donaghy includes a bibliography of the earliest published references on this subject. "In 1958 RMP Donag…

GMN 11992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14200