University of Missouri (BS)
Johns Hopkins University (MD, MA)
Known for
Research in neuroscience & neurosurgery
Awards
Nobel cited for two times (1937,1938)
Scientific career
Fields
Physician & Neurosurgeon
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University
Walter Edward Dandy (April 6, 1886 – April 19, 1946) was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley (1857–1916) and Harvey Cushing (1869–1939). Dandy is credited with numerous neurosurgical discoveries and innovations, including the description of the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, surgical treatment of hydrocephalus, the invention of air ventriculography and pneumoencephalography, the description of brain endoscopy, the establishment of the first intensive care unit (Fox 1984, p. 82), and the first clipping of an intracranial aneurysm, which marked the birth of cerebrovascular neurosurgery.
During his 40-year medical career, Dandy published five books and more than 160 peer-reviewed articles while conducting a full-time, ground-breaking neurosurgical practice in which he performed during his peak years about 1000 operations per year (Sherman et al. 2006). He was recognized at the time as a remarkably fast and particularly dexterous surgeon. Dandy was associated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Hospital his entire medical career. The importance of his numerous contributions to neurosurgery in particular and to medicine in general has increased as the field of neurosurgery has evolved.
Walter Edward Dandy (April 6, 1886 – April 19, 1946) was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery...
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lobectomy of a human subject was performed by the American neurosurgeon WalterDandy in 1930. The neurologist Richard Brickner reported on this case in 1932...
the hospital, including neurosurgery by Harvey Williams Cushing and WalterDandy, cardiac surgery by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, and child psychiatry...
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skull. The procedure was introduced in 1919 by the American neurosurgeon WalterDandy and was performed extensively until the late 1970s, when it was replaced...
endonasal approach is being trialled. Surgical clipping was introduced by WalterDandy of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1937. After clipping, a catheter angiogram...
appropriate given particular situations. Surgical clipping was introduced by WalterDandy of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1937. It consists of a craniotomy to...
he was sent to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment by WalterDandy, the most famous neurosurgeon in the country, but an operation revealed...
first anatomical hemispherectomy was performed and described in 1928 by WalterDandy. This was done as an attempt to treat glioma, a brain tumor. The first...
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Cushing in Boston, who, retired for several years by then, recommended WalterDandy, who was on a boat fishing in the Chesapeake Bay with Harry Nice, the...
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an early pioneer in the use of angiograms. American neurosurgeon Dr WalterDandy, working in Baltimore, was the first to introduce clips in 1938. Microsurgery...
recognised as the first proficient brain surgeon in the world. In 1937, WalterDandy began the practice of vascular neurosurgery by performing the first surgical...
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criteria for IIH were developed in 1937 by the Baltimore neurosurgeon WalterDandy; Dandy also introduced subtemporal decompressive surgery in the treatment...
could be monitored more closely. In 1923, the American neurosurgeon WalterDandy created a three-bed unit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In these units...
also a collection of his papers at the National Library of Medicine. WalterDandy, the first pediatric neurosurgeon and the developer of pneumoencephalography...
identified Cushing's syndrome and the Cushing ulcer WalterDandy, neurosurgeon and the namesake of the Dandy–Walker syndrome Daniel C. Darrow, pediatrician...
her sister who together helped establish the Baltimore Museum of Art WalterDandy, one of the fathers of neurosurgery Samuel K. Dennis Jr. (1874–1953)...
magazine The Dandy has had many different strips ranging from humour strips to adventure strips to prose stories. However eventually the Dandy changed from...
syndrome – Niels Christian Gauslaa Danbolt, Karl Philipp Closs Dandy–Walker syndrome – WalterDandy, Arthur Earl Walker De Clérambault syndrome – Gaëtan Gatian...
academic surgeons of the time, including Harvey Williams Cushing and WalterDandy, founders of the surgical subspecialty of neurosurgery; and Hugh H. Young...