Victor Horsley 1) attempt the direct removal of a pineal region tumor in 1910.
In 1910, Taylor 2) described the hemilaminectomy technique.
Neuroendoscopy was described initially in the year 1910 by Victor Darwin Lespinasse (An urologist) where the lateral ventricles were accessed using a rigid cystoscope to fulgurate the choroid plexus as a measure to reduce cerebrospinal fluid production in hydrocephalic children 3).
The method was further developed by Walter Dandy who implemented ventriculography, worked out by himself in 1918, into the procedure of choroid plexus removal in hydrocephalic patients. For many, he is considered the father of neuroendoscopy. In 1923, William Mixter executed the first successful endoscopic ventriculostomy of the third ventricle.
Posterior lateral mass fusion was later added to Albee 4) and Hibbs’s technique in 1911 5) , which remained the standard for 5 decades. This was first utilized for instability in patients with Pott’s disease.