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History of Stereotactic Neurosurgery in Italy

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Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

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The history of stereotactic neurosurgery in Italy is strictly linked to the development of the mayor European schools of Paris, Stokholm and Freiburg. In the sixties almost any neurosurgical department in Italy had a stereotactic frame dedicated to thalamotomy for Parkinson disease (the Talairach frame, Reichert frame, Guiot frame, Leksell frame and the Cooper frame were the most popular steretactic devices). From this “pneumoencephalography era” we can remember Franco Migliavacca in Milan, Dalle Ore in Verona, Faust D’Andrea in Naple and Elio Tartarini in Genoa who performed thousands of stereotactic operations for Parkinson disease, mental illness, and pain [4]. After the LDopa discovery and its wide therapeutical application, stereotactic surgery seems to have disappeared from Italy except for a few Institutes which still continued to perform stereotactic operations for tremor, pain, dystonia, and epilepsy.

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  1. Canadian Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1), 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Andres M. Lozano (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery)

  2. Houston Stereotactic Concepts, Inc., 2260 West Holcombe Boulevard Suite 309, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    Philip L. Gildenberg

  3. University of Toronto, 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Ronald R. Tasker

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Franzini, A., Sironi, V.A., Broggi, G. (2009). History of Stereotactic Neurosurgery in Italy. In: Lozano, A.M., Gildenberg, P.L., Tasker, R.R. (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_15

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