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Nov 25, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
#tweetorial DR. EGAS MONIZ, the FATHER of CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY undertook a task no one considered possible: the radiographic imaging of the brain in a living human. Moniz never made a single injection; yet with his determination and intelligence, he helped launch our field!
(1/11)Dr. Moniz was a brilliant Neurologist who pioneered cerebral angiography in 1927 allowing Neurologists & Neurosurgeons to visualize the cerebral vasculature for the 1st time. Until then, ventriculography, developed by Dr. Walter Dandy, was the gold standard @UncleHarveyNSG