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 ¹⁾.

Initial limitations in the propagation of this technique included lack of appropriate equipment and higher mortality and morbidity. However, technological refinements over the past years resulting in improved optics and miniature instruments have aided the immense progress in the field of neuroendoscopy allowing its development as an independent treatment modality as well as an adjunct to microneurosurgery for various neurological disorders.

Since its revival in the early 1990s, neuroendoscopy has become an integral component of modern neurosurgery.