1857 [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== 1857 ======

[[1856]]-[[1858]]
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The [[chronic subdural hematoma]] was originally termed “[[pachymeningitis hemorrhagica interna]]” by [[Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow]] in [[1857]]
((Scott M. Spontaneous Nontraumatic Subdural Hematomas. JAMA. 1949; 141:596–602)).
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Pituitary [[metastases]] (PM) is a rare complication of advanced malignancy, first reported by L. Benjamin in [[1857]] as a case of [[melanoma]] spread to the [[pituitary]] identified in an [[autopsy]]
((Chiang MF, Brock M, Patt S. Pituitary metastases. Neurochirurgia (Stuttg). 1990 Jul;33(4):127-31. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1053571. PMID: 2203980.))
and later in [[1913]], [[Harvey Williams Cushing]] 
((Cushing H. Concerning diabetes insipidus and the polyuria of the hypophysial origin. Boston Med Surg J. 1913;168(25):901–10.))