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History of Stereotactic Surgery in Japan

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Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

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It was post-World War II, when a young bud of stereotactic surgery sprouted in Japan as in other countries. Hirotaro Narabayashi, a postgraduate psychiatrist, inspired by Prof. Ogawa’s suggestion, explored the destroyed and almost burned out Tokyo with a drawing of a stereotactic instrument, looking for a factory that had survived the war. Finally, he found one small factory still working, and with the help of a kind engineer there, he produced the first model of a stereotactic instrument in 1949 [1].

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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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Ohye, C. (2009). History of Stereotactic Surgery in Japan. 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_5

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