Neurosurgery at the time of COVID-19. How this pandemic infectious disease is influencing neurosurgical activities and patient management
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neurosurgery
Francesco Durante and the first intracranial tumor successfully operated on with long survival (1884)
Francesco Durante was born in Sicily, precisely Letojanni Gallodoro. He contributed to the history of neurosurgery in not only Italy but the whole world. In June 1884, he removed a left frontal meningioma, describing a personal technique of craniotomy with a discontinuous osteotangential section flap. It was the first such operation to be performed in any country after which the patient had a long survival. The important and pioneering contribution made by Durante to the history of neurosurgery is testified by his Treaty on Pathology and Surgical Therapy.
Retrospective and randomized analysis of influence and correlation of clinical and molecular prognostic factors in a mono-operative series of 122 patients with glioblastoma treated with STR or GTR
Glioblastoma is a solid, infiltrating, and the most frequent highly malignant primary brain tumor.