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Artico M, Spoletini M, Fumagalli L, et al. Egas Moniz: 90 Years (1927-2017) from Cerebral Angiography. Front Neuroanat. 2017;11:81doi: 10.3389/fnana.2017.00081.
Artico, M., Spoletini, M., Fumagalli, L., Biagioni, F., Ryskalin, L., Fornai, F., Salvati, M., Frati, A., Pastore, F. S., & Taurone, S. (2017). Egas Moniz: 90 Years (1927-2017) from Cerebral Angiography. Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 1181. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2017.00081
Artico, Marco, et al. "Egas Moniz: 90 Years (1927-2017) from Cerebral Angiography." Frontiers in neuroanatomy vol. 11 (2017): 81. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2017.00081
Artico M, Spoletini M, Fumagalli L, Biagioni F, Ryskalin L, Fornai F, Salvati M, Frati A, Pastore FS, Taurone S. Egas Moniz: 90 Years (1927-2017) from Cerebral Angiography. Front Neuroanat. 2017 Sep 19;11:81. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2017.00081. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28974927; PMCID: PMC5610728.
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Front Neuroanat. 2017 Sep 19;11:81. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2017.00081. eCollection 2017.

Egas Moniz: 90 Years (1927-2017) from Cerebral Angiography.

Frontiers in neuroanatomy

Marco Artico, Marialuisa Spoletini, Lorenzo Fumagalli, Francesca Biagioni, Larisa Ryskalin, Francesco Fornai, Maurizio Salvati, Alessandro Frati, Francesco Saverio Pastore, Samanta Taurone

Affiliations

  1. Department of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of RomeRome, Italy.
  2. Department of Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics, Sapienza University of RomeRome, Italy.
  3. IRCCS NeuromedPozzilli, Italy.
  4. Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of PisaPisa, Italy.
  5. Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor VergataRome, Italy.

PMID: 28974927 PMCID: PMC5610728 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2017.00081

Abstract

In June 2017 we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the pioneer discovery of cerebral angiography, the seminal imaging technique used for visualizing cerebral blood vessels and vascular alterations as well as other intracranial disorders. Egas Moniz (1874-1955) was the first to describe the use of this revolutionary technique which, until 1975 (when computed tomography, CT, scan was introduced in the clinical practice), was the sole diagnostic tool to provide an imaging of cerebral vessels and therefore alterations due to intracranial pathology. Moniz introduced in the clinical practice this fundamental and important diagnostic tool. The present contribution wishes to pay a tribute to the Portuguese neurosurgeon, who was also a distinguished neurologist and statesman. Despite his tremendous contribution in modern brain imaging, Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for prefrontal leucotomy, the neurosurgical intervention nowadays unacceptable, but should rather be remembered for his key contribution to modern brain imaging.

Keywords: angiography; history of anatomy; imaging methodology; neuroanatomy; neuroimaging; neurosurgery

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