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Four Early Contributors to Neurosurgery in North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Julian T. Hoff
Julian T. Hoff*
Affiliation:
From the Section of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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Abstract

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The lives of four physicians of the past are described, focusing on their unique contributions to the early development of neurosurgery in the United States and Canada. Each influenced the others during these formative years, and each played a major role in the evolution of a new surgical subspecialty.

Résumé

RÉSUMÉ

Il s’agit d’une description de la vie de quatre mécins du passécentrésur leurs contributions particuliès au déloppement de la neurochirurgie aux Éats Unis et au Canada. Chacun a influencées autres pendant ces anné du dét de cette discipline et chacun a jouén rômajeur dans l’élution d’une nouvelle sous-spéalitéhirurgicale.

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Type
Historical Neurosurgery
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , August 2000 , pp. 254 - 259
Copyright
Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2000

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