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Historical Trends of Neuroendoscopic Surgery

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Dr. Axel Perneczky was a modern-day pioneer of neuroendoscopy. He developed the concept of “keyhole neurosurgery”, as an evolution of microneurosurgery. Since 1989, he was working on the application of endoscopy in neurosurgery. In June 1993, he organised in Wiesbaden the “First International Congress on Minimally Invasive Techniques in Neurosurgery”, which signalled the beginning of the modern-day neuroendoscopy. He showed equal passion in educating many neurosurgeons in neuroendoscopic techniques. Dr. Perneczky was honoured “Pioneer in Neuroendoscopy” by the International Federation for Neuroendoscopy in absentia at the occasion of the Vth World Congress of Neuroendoscopy, held in Athens in May 2009.

With the occasion of Dr. Perneczky’s decoration, it is fitting that we remember the inventor of the concept of endoscopy, Dr. Philipp Bozzini, a German-Italian physician, who in 1806 while demonstrating the “Lichtleiter” to the Academy of Medicine in Vienna wrote: “Until now, we have completely lacked the ability to see into the inner cavities and spaces of the living body; in anatomy the scalpel taught us only about their shape, and conclusions about their functions could only be suspected. This is the main reason why our knowledge of the important laws of motion in the animal organisation is still so retarded, since no change can take place in all of nature other than by increased or decreased motion!”

The first ventriculoscopy and choroid plexus coagulation was performed in Chicago by Dr. L’Espinasse (1878–1946), using a rigid Uroscope, which had a lens system developed in 1878 by M. Nitze (1849–1906) in collaboration with the instrument builder Josef Leiter (1830–1892) in Vienna, Austria.

Memorial Address: Axel Perneczky 1949–2009

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Bauer, B.L. (2014). Historical Trends of Neuroendoscopic Surgery. In: Sgouros, S. (eds) Neuroendoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39085-2_1

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