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

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Yes, you can access The Legacy of Harvey Cushing by Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, Dennis D. Spencer, Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol,Dennis D. Spencer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Neurosurgery. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Thieme/AANS

Year

2011

eBook ISBN

9781604066319

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Topic

Medicine

Subtopic

Neurosurgery

The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Cushing Brain Tumor Registry: A Diary of Neurological Surgery During Its Conception
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Pituitary tumors and other parasellar region masses
Chapter 2 Gliomas and other "malignant" tumors
Chapter 3 Meningiomas
Chapter 4 Cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations
Chapter 5 Spinal tumors
Chapter 6 Posterior fossa tumors and other pathologies
Chapter 7 Special illustrations, additional operative sketches, teaching slides, and operating room photographs
Index

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