Egas Moniz: twice a double life

Bertolote, José Manoel

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“…On June 28th 1927 Moniz was finally able to achieve the visualization of a pituitary tumor in a young man (Moniz, 1927a ; Figure 2C ). On July 7th 1927 his revolutionary discovery was presented at the congress of the Neurological Society in Paris (Moniz, 1927a ; Novak, 1982 ; Bertolote, 2015 ), thus arousing the interest of famous neurologists such as Babinski, Sicard and Clovis Vincent. After describing the normal distribution of intracranial blood vessels, Moniz obtained images indirectly showing through the use of X-rays the location and size of intracranial tumors.…”

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Egas Moniz: 90 Years (1927–2017) from Cerebral Angiography

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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.

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