TY - JOUR
T1 - 100 Years of neurological surgery at the Mayo Clinic
AU - Spinner, Robert J.
AU - Al-Rodhan, Nayef R.F.
AU - Piepgras, David G.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - THE PRACTICE OF neurological surgery at the Mayo Clinic began as early efforts were undertaken by Drs. Charles Mayo and Emil Beckman, and surgical procedures were performed for trauma, infection, tumor, epilepsy, and hemorrhage. In 1919, the Section of Neurologic Surgery was established, with Alfred W. Adson as its first chair. Subsequently, Drs. Winchell McK. Craig, J. Grafton Love, Collin S. MacCarty, Ross H. Miller, and Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr., followed as eminent chairmen. Beginning with a modest number of cases per year, the neurosurgical service at the Mayo Clinic has grown to become one of the largest in North America. Under the current leadership of Dr. David G. Piepgras, approximately 3200 surgical procedures spanning the spectrum of subspecialties are performed each year by a staff of 10 neurosurgeons. This article traces neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic, including several persons who contributed to its achievements over the past century.
AB - THE PRACTICE OF neurological surgery at the Mayo Clinic began as early efforts were undertaken by Drs. Charles Mayo and Emil Beckman, and surgical procedures were performed for trauma, infection, tumor, epilepsy, and hemorrhage. In 1919, the Section of Neurologic Surgery was established, with Alfred W. Adson as its first chair. Subsequently, Drs. Winchell McK. Craig, J. Grafton Love, Collin S. MacCarty, Ross H. Miller, and Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr., followed as eminent chairmen. Beginning with a modest number of cases per year, the neurosurgical service at the Mayo Clinic has grown to become one of the largest in North America. Under the current leadership of Dr. David G. Piepgras, approximately 3200 surgical procedures spanning the spectrum of subspecialties are performed each year by a staff of 10 neurosurgeons. This article traces neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic, including several persons who contributed to its achievements over the past century.
KW - History of medicine
KW - History of neurosurgery
KW - Mayo Clinic
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U2 - 10.1097/00006123-200108000-00032
DO - 10.1097/00006123-200108000-00032
M3 - Article
C2 - 11504121
AN - SCOPUS:0034901486
SN - 0148-396X
VL - 49
SP - 438
EP - 446
JO - Neurosurgery
JF - Neurosurgery
IS - 2
ER -