Published in:
01-11-2004 | Editorial
The International Study Group on Neuroendoscopy (ISGNE)
Authors:
Giuseppe Cinalli, Enrico de Divitiis, Giuseppe Maggi
Published in:
Child's Nervous System
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Issue 11-12/2004
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Excerpt
The International Study Group on Neuroendoscopy (ISGNE) was created under the impulse and pioneering work of Professor Bernhard Bauer and Professor Shizuo Oi in October 2001. Neuroendoscopy is not a new technique: the earliest experiences and the rudiments of the technique date back to the 1920s and 1930s with the work of J. Mixter, W. Dandy and T.J. Putnam. Significant and important experiences were also accumulated in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s by G. Guiot, J.E. Scarff, T. Fukushima, H.B. Griffith, J.K. Vries, J. Camaert, M. Gaab and M. Apuzzo, but the real impulse and widespread acceptance occurred in the early 1990s with the publication of the work of R. Jones, K. Oka, B. Bauer, D. Hellwig, C. Teo, C. Sainte-Rose and J.M. Drake. …