1993
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100048289
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William M. Lougheed and the Development of Vascular Neurosurgery at the Toronto General Hospital

Abstract: ABSTRACT:Dr. Bill Lougheed was able to navigate residents through even the most complex neurosurgical procedures with complete and often heroic patience, always ensuring for the patient his usual expert technical result but still leaving intact the resident’s sense of pride and achievement, the feeling that he, the resident, “had done it”. A gifted technical surgeon, a thoughtful and inventive neurosurgeon, Dr. Lougheed was above all else one of Canada’s great teachers of operative neurosurgery. Canada’s pione… Show more

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“…5). 16,17 Horsey performed further training in neurosurgery across Europe, including Queen Square in London, England. In July 1954, he was chosen to be the first head of the Division of Neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto ( Table 1).…”
Section: The Early Yearsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…5). 16,17 Horsey performed further training in neurosurgery across Europe, including Queen Square in London, England. In July 1954, he was chosen to be the first head of the Division of Neurosurgery at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto ( Table 1).…”
Section: The Early Yearsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Before them, such cases were usually considered hopeless. The Toronto neurosurgical program flowered in the succeeding decades most notably with Lougheed 60 , Tasker 61 and Hendrick. [62][63][64] New generations came through the ranks to build the largest training program in the country, possibly the continent.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…William M. Lougheed (1923–2004, born at Toronto General Hospital, son of a physician practicing in Toronto; MD Toronto, 1947; Figure 2A) began training at the Toronto General Hospital with cardiac surgeons Gordon Murray and Wilfred Bigelow, but he fell under the spell of neurological surgery and learned the craft from McKenzie and Botterell 16 . It was Bigelow’s investigations into cardiac surgical procedures using hypothermia that intrigued Lougheed about cerebral operations using reversible arrest of circulation and hypothermia.…”
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“…Fisher), Cooley, DeBakey, and others spurred the expansion of carotid surgery in the 1950s.
Figure 2 (A) Photograph of Dr. William M. Lougheed, circa 1960. Reproduced with permission from Findlay JM 16 . (B) Left: Lougheed clip, as designed by Mr. Harry S. Kerr, in several sizes (top row), with the Schwartz clip (lower left) and Mayfield clip (lower right).
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