The Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is where American neurosurgery was founded by Dr. Harvey Williams Cushing in 1913.
Pituitary metastases (PM) is a rare complication of advanced malignancy, first reported by L. Benjamin in 1857 as a case of melanoma spread to the pituitary identified in an autopsy 1) and later in 1913, Cushing 2) reported this unique phenomenon as the cause of diabetes insipidus.