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[[1955]]-[[1957]]

Georges de Morsier first recognized the relation of a rudimentary or absent [[septum pellucidum]] with hypoplasia of the [[optic nerve]]s and [[chiasm]] in [[1956]]
((Études sur les dysraphies, crânioencéphaliques. III. Agénésie du septum palludicum avec malformation du tractus optique. La dysplasie septo-optique. Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Zurich, 1956, 77: 267-292.)).
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The earliest descriptions of the technique have always been attributed to [[Ralph Bingham Cloward]], [[George W. Smith]], and Robinson. However, in the French literature, this procedure was also described by others during the exact same time period (in the 1950s). At a meeting in Paris in [[1955]], Belgians Albert Dereymaeker and Joseph Cyriel Mulier, a neurosurgeon and an orthopedic surgeon, respectively, described the technique that involved an [[anterior cervical discectomy]] and the placement of an [[cortical iliac crest autograft]] in the [[intervertebral disc space]]. In [[1956]], a summary of their oral presentation was published, and a subsequent paper-an illustrated description of the technique and the details of a larger case series with a 3.5-year follow-up period-followed in [[1958]]. The list of authors who first described ACDF should be completed by adding Dereymaeker's and Mulier's names. They made an important contribution to the practice of [[spinal surgery]] that was not generally known because they published in French
((Bartels RHMA, Goffin J. Albert Dereymaeker and Joseph Cyriel Mulier's
description of anterior cervical discectomy with fusion in 1955. J Neurosurg
Spine. 2018 Jan 12:1-6. doi: 10.3171/2017.7.SPINE17182. [Epub ahead of print]
PubMed PMID: 29327972.
)).