Historia de la neurocirugía moderna
ISSN: 1697-4298, 0034-0618
Year of publication: 2015
Volume: 81
Issue: 1
Pages: 37-47
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales de la Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia
Abstract
The surgery of the nervous system is etymologically known as “Neurosurgery”. Although cranial trepanation is possibly the oldest operation which there are proven traces, from the Paleolithic period (12,000 years BC), Neurosurgery as a discipline of Medicine and Surgery specialty began as such at the end of XIX century. From that time until today can be sentenced to no other medical or surgical speciality that has experienced such a huge development in the span of little over a century. In this paper this historical development of what could be considered “modern” Neurosurgery is exposed. Additional emphasis is placed on what will be the Neurosurgery in the not too distant future, if not already present.