Show pageBacklinksCite current pageExport to PDFBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== 1908 ====== [[1907]]-[[1909]] Occipitocervical dissociation (OCD) or [[atlantooccipital dislocation]] (AOD) was first described by Blackwood in [[1908]] and was considered quite rare as compared to another [[cervical spine injury]] ---- The first device for [[stereotactic]] surgery was described in detail in [[1908]] by British neuroscientist and surgeon Sir [[Victor Horsley]] and British physiologist [[Robert Henry Clarke]]. This device, named the Horsley-Clarke apparatus, facilitated the study of the [[cerebellum]] in [[animal]]s by enabling accurate electrolytic lesioning to be made in the brain. To ensure that a lesion would be introduced in the correct site, Horsley and Clarke created [[atlas]]es containing pictures of the brains of the animals on which they experimented. Shortly thereafter, in [[1918]], the first stereotaxic apparatus for humans was designed by Canadian neurologist Aubrey Mussen. However, the first attempts at stereotaxic surgery in human subjects were not made until the 1940s; these attempts were pioneered by American neurologists [[Ernest A. Spiegel]] and [[Henry T. Wycis]]. Since then, a number of modifications and refinements have been made to stereotaxic devices, [[procedure]]s, and atlases, and these advances have significantly improved the utility of [[stereotaxy]]. ---- In [[1908]] the first successful lumbar [[discectomy]] was initiated and performed by the German neurologist [[Heinrich Oppenheim]] (1858-1919) and the surgeon [[Fedor Krause]] (1857-1937); however, neither recognized the true pathological condition of discogenic [[nerve compression syndrome]]. With the landmark report in [[The New England Journal of Medicine]] in [[1934]], the two American surgeons [[William Jason Mixter]] (1880-1958) and [[Joseph Seaton Barr]] (1901-1963) finally clarified the pathomechanism of [[lumbar disc herniation]] and furthermore, propagated [[discectomy]] as the standard therapy. ---- Coats disease is an [[idiopathic]] ocular condition characterized by retinal [[telangiectasia]], aneurysms, and exudation. George Coats first described it in [[1908]] as a unilateral condition with retinal exudation and [[telangiectasia]] in male children 1908.txt Last modified: 2024/06/07 02:59by 127.0.0.1