Artico Marco, Spoletini Marialuisa, Fumagalli Lorenzo, Biagioni Francesca, Ryskalin Larisa, Fornai Francesco, Salvati Maurizio, Frati Alessandro, Pastore Francesco Saverio, Taurone Samanta
Department of Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of RomeRome, Italy.
Department of Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics, Sapienza University of RomeRome, Italy.
Front Neuroanat. 2017 Sep 19;11:81. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2017.00081. eCollection 2017.
In June 2017 we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the pioneer discovery of cerebral angiography, the seminal imaging technique used for visualizing cerebral blood vessels and vascular alterations as well as other intracranial disorders. Egas Moniz (1874-1955) was the first to describe the use of this revolutionary technique which, until 1975 (when computed tomography, CT, scan was introduced in the clinical practice), was the sole diagnostic tool to provide an imaging of cerebral vessels and therefore alterations due to intracranial pathology. Moniz introduced in the clinical practice this fundamental and important diagnostic tool. The present contribution wishes to pay a tribute to the Portuguese neurosurgeon, who was also a distinguished neurologist and statesman. Despite his tremendous contribution in modern brain imaging, Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for prefrontal leucotomy, the neurosurgical intervention nowadays unacceptable, but should rather be remembered for his key contribution to modern brain imaging.
2017年6月，我们庆祝脑血管造影先驱性发现90周年，脑血管造影是一种用于可视化脑血管和血管病变以及其他颅内疾病的开创性成像技术。埃加斯·莫尼斯（1874 - 1955）是第一个描述使用这种革命性技术的人，在1975年（计算机断层扫描，即CT扫描引入临床实践之前），它是唯一能提供脑血管成像以及因此能显示颅内病变所致改变的诊断工具。莫尼斯将这一重要的诊断工具引入了临床实践。本文旨在向这位葡萄牙神经外科医生致敬，他同时也是一位杰出的神经学家和政治家。尽管埃加斯·莫尼斯在现代脑成像方面做出了巨大贡献，但他在1949年因前额叶白质切除术获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，这种神经外科干预如今已不可接受，而他对现代脑成像的关键贡献更值得铭记。
