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RAND, Robert Wheeler (1923 – 2013)

1923 – 2013

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

1965 CE

#11986

Microsurgical resection of acoustic tumors by a transmeatal posterior fossa approach.

"On August 1st, 1957, Theodore Kurze at the University of Southern California became the first neurosurgeon to use an operating microscope to remove a a neurilemmoma of the VIIIth nerve. The inspiration to develop thi…

1968 CE

#11984

Microneurosurgery: Application of the binocular surgical microscope in brain tumors, intracranial aneurysms, spinal cord disease, and nerve reconstruction.

1969 CE

#11990

Microneurosurgery. Edited by Robert W. Rand.

The first textbooks on microneurosurgery by the pioneering American neurosurgeon, Robert Rand, and the pioneering Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon Gazi Yasargil, both appeared in 1969.