Journal of neurosurgery
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The authors commemorate the life and career of Dr. Ladislau Steiner, one of the world's most highly regarded neurosurgeons, from Stockholm and Charlottesville, Virginia, who has died at age 92. They review the events of Dr. ⋯ Steiner had a second career as head of the Lars Leksell Gamma Knife Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The authors recall their own long association with Dr. Steiner and celebrate his contributions to the field of neurosurgery.
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Journal of neurosurgery · Sep 2013
Biography Historical ArticleCharles Stent and the mystery behind the word "stent".
Stents have come to be well-known devices and are being used widely in numerous branches of medicine. It is intriguing that the word "stent" actually derives from the name of a dentist, Charles Stent, who developed a material to obtain dental impressions. ⋯ Intracranial stenting is a relatively new and rapidly developing field that came into being not more than 12 years ago. The authors describe the life and works of Charles Stent, discuss the possible origins of the word stent, and discuss how intravascular and intracranial stenting came into existence.