The Birth of Stereotactic Surgery: A Personal Retrospective

Philip L. Gildenberg; Patrick J. Kelly; James T. Goodrich; Douglas Kondziolka; Ronald R. Tasker

doi:10.1227/01.NEU.0000309602.15208.01

The Birth of Stereotactic Surgery: A Personal Retrospective

Philip L. Gildenberg, Patrick J. Kelly, James T. Goodrich, Douglas Kondziolka, Ronald R. Tasker

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Abstract

THE FIELD OF human stereotactic surgery was born at Temple Medical School in Philadephia in 1947, with Ernst A. Spiegel and Henry T. Wycis its parent. I had the great fortune of walking into Dr. Spiegel's laboratory as a freshman medical student looking for a summer research project in 1956, when the field was emerging from its infancy, and worked with Spiegel and Wycis for the most of the next 13 years and Rolf Hassler the following year. The perspective of the early growth of the field as it grew, contracted, and then blossomed are presented.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	199-208
Number of pages	10
Journal	Neurosurgery
Volume	54
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1227/01.NEU.0000309602.15208.01
State	Published - Jan 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Apparatus
Ernst A. Spiegel
Extrapyramidal
Functional neurosurgery
Henry T. Wycis
History
Image-guided surgery
Movement disorders
Pain
Parkinson's disease
Robert H. Clarke
Stereotactic surgery
Victor Horsley

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery
Clinical Neurology

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