1923
The study of intracranial aneurysms has grown at an astounding rate since Sir Charles Symonds association of hemorrhage within the subarachnoid space to intracranial aneurysms in 1923.
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).
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.
The division of Neurosurgery in Toronto was created in 1923.
Dr. Abdulkadir Cahit Tuner became the first neurosurgeon with a degree in Turkey in 1923. The first neurosurgery department was established in Istanbul in 1923, and the first training program began in the late 1940s