1913
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.
1)
Chiang MF, Brock M, Patt S. Pituitary metastases. Neurochirurgia (Stuttg). 1990 Jul;33(4):127-31. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1053571. PMID: 2203980.
2)
Cushing H. Concerning diabetes insipidus and the polyuria of the hypophysial origin. Boston Med Surg J. 1913;168(25):901–10.