Publication year: 2012
Source: World Neurosurgery, Available online 11 January 2012
Alexey L. Krivoshapkin, Vladimir L. Zelman
There is archaeological evidence that the first neurosurgical procedure in what is now known as Siberia, was performed in8005 +\-100 BC.According to signs of bone growth, perhaps more than half of the individuals survived, who received the ancient trepanations. In Siberia the first operations on the human brain and spinal cord were performed in 1909 at Tomsk University Hospital by outstanding Russian surgeon and ProfessorVladimirM. Mysh. Professor Mysh moved from Saint Petersburg initially to Tomsk and later to Novosibirsk.NicolayN. Burdenko, the founder of Russian neurosurgery and the Moscow Neurosurgical Institution, began his medical education in the Tomsk Imperial University.In the 1950's,Professor Ksenia I. Kharitonova exerted her great influence upon the development of neurosurgery in Siberia. Since 1955, and for thirty years thereafter, Professor Kharitonova was recognized as a principal leader of Siberian neurosurgery. She applied every effort to spread neurosurgical knowledge and popularized best practices around Siberia and the Far East.Perestroika deconstructed and ultimately eliminated the orderly system of neurosurgical service in the Soviet Union. From another perspective, the process opened the window to the world. Fully equipped centers and clinics with state-of-the-art techniques for neurooncology, cerebrovascular diseases, neurotrauma, and spinal pathology management in Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Irkutsk were enabled.
Júlio Leonardo B. Pereira
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