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Luckett appears to have been the first person (1913) to visualize air in the ventricles of a living person. The demonstration of air in the ventricles of a corpse is without question attributed to Chiari (1891). In June 1918, Dandy reported on the introduction of air into the ventricle through puncture of a fontanelle or through burr holes (“ventriculography”,“ pneumoventriculography”, later also “cerebral pneumography ”). In 1919 he demonstrated for the first time the possibility of introducing air into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pathways by means of a lumbar puncture.
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Kautzky, R., Zülch, K.J., Wende, S., Tänzer, A. (1976). Pneumoencephalography. In: Neuroradiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81678-9_4
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