1903 [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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====== 1903 ======

[[1902]]-[[1904]]

Medical [[anti-shock trousers]] were first described in [[1903]] by surgeon G.W. Crile as he tried to augment [[blood pressure]] with a "pneumatic rubber suit" during neurosurgical [[[[procedure]]]]s.
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The unilateral [[suboccipital approach]] was popularized by Woolsey ([[1903]]) and with great contributions by [[Fedor Krause]] ([[1905]]).

After several refinements and modifications through different dedicated neurosurgeons (Fish, House and Seiffert , Dandy's suboccipital approach ([[1917]]) with an ipsilateral suboccipital flap evolved to the [[retrosigmoid transmeatal approach]].
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[[Marchiafava–Bignami disease]] is a progressive neurological disease of [[alcoholism]], characterized by [[corpus callosum]] demyelination and [[necrosis]] and subsequent atrophy. The disease was first described in [[1903]] by the Italian pathologists Amico Bignami and Ettore Marchiafava in an Italian Chianti drinker.