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When the neurological surgeon has occasion to expose the brain in the presence of increased intracranial pressure, he indeed opens a Pandora’s box. Cushing in his Cameron Lectures of 1925 succinctly summarized his understanding of the problems of cerebrospinal fluid circulation as he and his contemporaries faced them (1). In the intervening forty years, particularly with the advent of more elaborate physiological recording techniques, with the development of experimental models simulating clinical conditions, and with the introduction of the electron microscope, a fuller, though even yet an incomplete, understanding of pressure problems has evolved.
Aided in part by a grant from U. S. Public Health Service, No. NB 04686-02, and in part by the Junior Auxiliary of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation.
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Ishii, S., Tsuji, H., Ozawa, K., Kondo, Y., Evans, J.P. (1967). Brain Edema. In: Klatzo, I., Seitelberger, F. (eds) Brain Edema. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7545-3_4
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