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- Title
Neurosurgery in Italy: the past, the present, the future.
- Authors
Mastronardi, Luciano; Ferrante, Luigi
- Abstract
The article reports the practice of neurosurgery in Italy from the past to the present time. The origins of Italian neurosurgery are identified in the sixth millennium B.C. During twelfth century, occasional reports of brain surgery are attributed to surgeons Carbondula da Vercelli, Rogerius Frugardi and Rolando da Parma. In the sixteenth century, Giovanni Vigo da Rapallo was the first to propose trephining in Italy in the manuscript "Practica copiosa in Arte chirurgica ad filium Aloisium."
- Subjects
ITALY; SURGERY practice; BRAIN surgery; SURGEONS; NEUROSURGERY
- Publication
Neurosurgical Review, 2009, Vol 32, Issue 4, p381
- ISSN
0344-5607
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s10143-009-0206-4