====== Brazil ======

The pioneers were Augusto Brandão Filho, the first general surgeon to perform brain surgery in Brazil, and José Ribe Portugal and Elyseu Paglioli, the founders of the first two neurosurgery schools in Brazil. The Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery was founded in Brussels, Belgium, on July 26, 1957, during the First International Congress of Neurological Surgery, at the initiative of José Ribe Portugal and José Geraldo Albernaz
((Gusmão SS, de Souza JG. The early history of neurosurgery in Brazil.
Neurosurgery. 2002 Jun;50(6):1336-40; discussion 1340-1. PubMed PMID: 12015853.
)).

===== Hospitals =====


[[Belo Horizonte]]
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[[Campo Grande]]
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Department of Neurosurgery, Cajuru University Hospital, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, PUCPR, [[Curitiba]], Brazil.
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[[Porto Alegre]].
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[[Recife]].
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[[Rio de Janeiro]].
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[[São José do Rio Preto]].
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[[Sao Paulo]].

===== female neurosurgeon =====
There are fewer women surgeons in Brazil than men. However, in general, there is an increase in women in the analyzed specialties over the years. With the proportional inclusion of women in the Brazilian surgical workforce, we hope that we can achieve sex equality in Brazil
((Rangel Brandão G, Iaroseski J, Bueno Motter S, Oliveira Trindade B. Women Surgeons in Brazil: A Time Trend Analysis by Specialties in the Last Decade. World J Surg. 2022 Feb 24. doi: 10.1007/s00268-022-06488-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35211782.)).

===== Management of chronic subdural hematoma in Brazil =====
Teles AR, Kraemer JL. Management of [[chronic subdural hematoma]] in [[Brazil]]. Arq
Neuropsiquiatr. 2018 Aug;76(8):570-571. doi: 10.1590/0004-282X20180082. PubMed
PMID: 30231134 from Hospital São José, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, [[Porto Alegre]] RS, Brasil.