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American board of neurological surgery
Surg Neurol 1987;28:77
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Letters to Editor The Orbitozygomatic Infratemporal Approach
American Board of Neurological Surgery
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
We read with great interest the article entitled "The Orbitozygomatic Infratemporal Approach: A New Surgical Technique" (SURGICALNEUROLOGY 1986;26:27 1--6). Please allow us to draw your attention to a reference that was not quoted in Hakuba's article. One variation of this type of trephination with removal of the zygomatic process was described in 1978 by Wolfgang Seeger in the Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Brain and Surrounding Structures (New York: SpringerVerlag/Wien). This type of trephination allowed us to approach from a more basal direction the basal part of the seUar and parasellar region.
I believe that I am the only surviving member of the committee that organized the American Board of Neurological Surgery and of the Board itself which began in 1940. I have recently received the report of the last meeting of the Board on September 24, 1986. I am very impressed with this report. It is obvious that the Board has become confronted with many problems that we did not foresee in 1940. I am also impressed with the continuing excellence of the membership of the Board and with their continuing concern to maintain neurological surgery on a high level. With an American Board of Neurological Surgery of such excellence all neurological surgeons can be confident that neurological surgery will continue to enjoy the excellence that has always characterized it.
Joachim M. Gilsbach, M.D.
Freiburg, FederalRepublicof Germany Reply. I thank Dr. Gilsbach for calling our attention to the publication of Seeger's Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Brain and Surrounding Structures. I am sure Dr. Hakuba regrets the omission of this reference, but, because it was not published in a journal, it was not indexed as articles published in Surgical Neurology are and, therefore, it was not retrievable through the usual library searches.
Paul C. Bucy, M.D.
Tryon. North Carolina
Eben Alexander, Jr., M.D., Editor
© 1987 by ElsevierSciencePublishingCo., Inc.
0090-3019/87/$3.50
77
Letters to Editor The Orbitozygomatic Infratemporal Approach
American Board of Neurological Surgery
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
We read with great interest the article entitled "The Orbitozygomatic Infratemporal Approach: A New Surgical Technique" (SURGICALNEUROLOGY 1986;26:27 1--6). Please allow us to draw your attention to a reference that was not quoted in Hakuba's article. One variation of this type of trephination with removal of the zygomatic process was described in 1978 by Wolfgang Seeger in the Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Brain and Surrounding Structures (New York: SpringerVerlag/Wien). This type of trephination allowed us to approach from a more basal direction the basal part of the seUar and parasellar region.
I believe that I am the only surviving member of the committee that organized the American Board of Neurological Surgery and of the Board itself which began in 1940. I have recently received the report of the last meeting of the Board on September 24, 1986. I am very impressed with this report. It is obvious that the Board has become confronted with many problems that we did not foresee in 1940. I am also impressed with the continuing excellence of the membership of the Board and with their continuing concern to maintain neurological surgery on a high level. With an American Board of Neurological Surgery of such excellence all neurological surgeons can be confident that neurological surgery will continue to enjoy the excellence that has always characterized it.
Joachim M. Gilsbach, M.D.
Freiburg, FederalRepublicof Germany Reply. I thank Dr. Gilsbach for calling our attention to the publication of Seeger's Atlas of Topographical Anatomy of the Brain and Surrounding Structures. I am sure Dr. Hakuba regrets the omission of this reference, but, because it was not published in a journal, it was not indexed as articles published in Surgical Neurology are and, therefore, it was not retrievable through the usual library searches.
Paul C. Bucy, M.D.
Tryon. North Carolina
Eben Alexander, Jr., M.D., Editor
© 1987 by ElsevierSciencePublishingCo., Inc.
0090-3019/87/$3.50