====== 1907 ====== [[1906]]-[[1908]]. The first [[resection]] of an [[intramedullary tumor]] was carried out in [[1907]] by [[Anton von Eiselsberg]] in [[Vienna]]. ---- Codivilla described the treatment of a nerve root compression due to impingement by the transverse processes of the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae in a patient with a previous cervical compression fracture at C4–C5. He removed the transverse apophysis and freed a nerve root adherent to the bony callus and obtained a complete resolution of the C5 nerve root paralysis ((Codivilla A. Sulla cura chirurgica delle paralisi radicolari del plesso brachiale. In: Putti V, editor. Scritti medici di Alessandro Codivilla. Pubblicati dall’Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. Vol Archivio ed atti della società italiana di chirurgia. XX adunanza. Bologna, Italy: Licinio Cappelli Editore; 1907. pp. 902–904.)).