The History of the Gamma Knife (Volume 215) (Progress in Brain Research, Volume 215, Band 215) - Hardcover

Ganz, Jeremy C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444635203 ISBN 13: 9780444635204

Verlag: Elsevier, 2014

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The History of the Gamma Knife presents the evolution of concepts and technology which ended in the production of the modern Gamma Knife. The story starts before the Second World War and links pioneers in Berkeley and Sweden. To the best of the author’s belief it is the first detailed, factually accurate account of the development of this important therapeutic method.

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Jeremy Ganz was trained in neurosurgery at Queen Square London, Frenchay Hospital Bristol and Manchester Royal Infirmary. He emigrated to Norway in 1976 and was appointed staff surgeon in Bergen in 1979. In 1989 he was appointed chief of the Gamma Knife Center in Bergen, the fifth such center in the world. Since then he has travelled the world teaching Gamma Knife practice finishing in Cairo where he helped establish a Gamma Knife Center, where he worked for six years.

Since retirement he has published three books on Gamma Knife neurosurgery and one on epidural bleeding. Subsequently he has been interested in neurosurgical history, in particular the history of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the present with two books and several papers on these topics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Elsevier
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0444635203
• ISBN 13: 9780444635204
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italien