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Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease .
Cushing’s work at the Hunterian Laboratory contributed significantly to the development of endocrinology and neurosurgery. In 1912, Cushing was appointed surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard University.
His research on the pituitary body (1912) gained him an international reputation, and he was the first to ascribe to pituitary malfunction a type of obesity of the face and trunk now known as Cushing’s disease, or Cushing’s syndrome.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
24 de out. de 2016 · Perhaps his most enduring contribution to clinical medicine is Cushing Syndrome, described in 1932. It was Cushing himself who deftly realized the collective signs of a small series of patients whilst preparing the background reading for his 1930 Lister Lecture on pituitary physiology.
- Nancileigh M Doyle, James F Doyle, Edward J Walter
- 10.1177/1751143716673076
- 2017
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28 de fev. de 2020 · Between 1912 and 1919, Harvey Cushing launched a career in a new surgical specialty; relocated his practice, family, and laboratory work; and served in World War I. At the turn of the century, Johns Hopkins was establishing the first residency program in general surgery under William Halsted.
- Michael P Catalino, Michael P Catalino, Edward R Laws
- 2021
1 de ago. de 2011 · Harvey Cushing, one of the pioneers of modern surgery, treated patients with spinal pathology while he was at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, including three patients with psoas abscesses and one patient with kyphotic deformity, both secondary to Pott disease.
Harvey Cushing, a major figure in neurosurgery, was born on April 8, 1869 in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University in 1891, studied medicine at Harvard Medical School and received his medical degree in 1895.
