The legacy of Harvey Cushing : profiles of patient care / edited by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, Dennis D. Spencer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen-Gadol, Aaron A.

Spencer, Dennis D.

American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

American Association of Neurosurgeons.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nervous system--Surgery--Case studies.

Nervous system.

Nervous system--Surgery--History--Sources.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.

Cushing, Harvey.

Yale University.

Medical Subjects:

Yale University.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (603 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thieme ; Rolling Meadows, Ill. : American Association of Neurosurgeons, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A lavishly illustrated book on Cushing's pioneering career Derived from Harvey Cushing's remarkable personal collection in the Brain Tumor Registry, The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care presents a stunning historical account of Cushing's surgical cases and research from 1905 to 1930. This beautifully illustrated book features 800 of Cushing's surgical drawings and photographs of patients and tumor specimens. Preserved untouched for sixty years in the Yale University Library, the images provide the earliest catalog of neurological and neuropathological disease and reveal the techniques employed by the founder of modern neurosurgery. The editors have carefully integrated these high-quality photographs and illustrations into a compelling narrative constructed from patients' hospital records and Cushing's meticulous notes at preoperative and postoperative stages of management. Discharge notes, letters from the family of patients, photographs of patients (years after surgery), and death reports further humanize each clinical case and speak to Cushing's lasting dedication to his patients. The book provides a glimpse of the extraordinary contribution that both Cushing and his patients made to the progress of neurological surgery in the twentieth century. This unique book will be prized by today's generation of neurological surgeons and neuropathologists. A co-publication of Thieme and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Contents:

Pituitary tumors and other parasellar region masses

Gliomas and other "malignant" tumors

Meningiomas

Cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations

Spinal tumors

Posterior fossa tumors and other pathologies

Special illustrations, additional operative sketches, teaching slides, and operating room photographs.

Notes:

"American Association of Neurological Surgeons; and the American Association of Neurosurgeons"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781604066319

1604066318

OCLC:

77573157