DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)

1914 CE

#4597

Internal hydrocephalus.

Dandy and the pediatrician Blackfan published two papers on the production, circulation, and absorption of CSF in the brain and on the causes and potential treatments of hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is the buildup of …

1918 CE

#4888

Extirpation of the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles in communicating hydrocephalus.

1918 CE

#4602

Ventriculography following the injection of air into the cerebral ventricles.

Dandy was responsible for the introduction of ventriculography.

1919 CE

#4603

Röntgenography of the brain after the injection of air into the spinal canal.

Introduction of pneumoencephalography.

1925 CE

#4896

Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.

Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.

1928 CE

#3406

Menière’s disease; its diagnosis and a method of treatment.

Dandy’s operation for relief of Menière’s syndrome.

1933 CE

#11349

Benign tumors in the third ventricle of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.

1934 CE

#11350

Benign, encapsulated tumors in the lateral ventricles of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.

1938 CE

#11187

Intracranial aneurysm of the internal carotid artery cured by operation.

Dandy was the first surgeon to directly clip an intracranial aneurysm.

1944 CE

#11352

Intracranial arterial aneurysms.

1945 CE

#11353

Surgery of the brain.

Volume XII in Lewis' Practice of Surgery.