RESUMO

The first published account of a neurosurgical intervention performed on the North American continent is described. The operation took place in Mexico City in 1561. The neurosurgical intervention was performed by a Spanish surgeon, Pedro Arias de Benavides, on a 13-year-old boy who had sustained head trauma that caused an open depressed cranial fracture and exposed the cerebrum. A description of this case was first published in Valladolid, Spain, 6 years after the event, in a book entitled Secretos de Chirurgia ("Secrets of Surgery").

Assuntos

Lesões Encefálicas/história , Procedimentos Neurocirúrgicos/história , Lesões Encefálicas/terapia , História do Século XVI , Humanos , Masculino , México , Editoração/história , Fraturas Cranianas/história , Fraturas Cranianas/terapia , Espanha , Traduções , Ferimentos por Arma de Fogo/história , Ferimentos por Arma de Fogo/terapia