Tan Tze-Ching
Department of Neurosurgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 30 Gascoigne Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Neurosurgery. 2004 Apr;54(4):984-90; discussion 990-1. doi: 10.1227/01.neu.0000114514.11970.13.
Neurosurgery in Hong Kong had its origins as a division of General Surgery and became a subspecialty only 46 years ago with the arrival of Hsiang-Lai Wen. For well over a decade, Wen would be the only neurosurgeon in the colony. His contributions to neurosurgery included the ventriculosuperior sagittal sinus shunt and the application of acupuncture in anesthesia, pain ablation, and drug detoxification. A pilot with the China National Aviation Corporation during World War II, he played an active part in the Allied war effort. As a diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, Wen sought to improve the standard of neurosurgery in Hong Kong and southern China with the establishment of the Hong Kong Neurosurgical Society in 1981 and the Research Institute of Neurosciences in Guangzhou in 1988. Wen was acknowledged as Hong Kong's "father of neurosurgery," and his work paved the way for the development of modern neurosurgery in the region.
香港的神经外科起源于普通外科的一个分支，仅在46年前随着向莱文的到来才成为一个亚专科。在十多年的时间里，文是该殖民地唯一的神经外科医生。他对神经外科的贡献包括脑室-上矢状窦分流术以及针灸在麻醉、疼痛消融和戒毒方面的应用。二战期间，他是中国航空公司的一名飞行员，积极参与了盟军的战争努力。作为美国神经外科委员会的外交官，文于1981年成立了香港神经外科学会，并于1988年在广州成立了神经科学研究所，力求提高香港和中国南方的神经外科水平。文被誉为香港的“神经外科之父”，他的工作为该地区现代神经外科的发展铺平了道路。
