title: Walter Edward Dandy (1886-1946).
abstract: Dandy was a leading light in the initiation and development of neurosurgery, not only in his native America but also throughout the world. This paper attempts briefly to outline his main achievements. After a turbulent relationship with Cushing he emerged as a brilliant, if vain, surgeon and investigator, based mainly at Johns Hopkins. He initiated air ventriculography and effected original studies on cerebrospinal fluid formation and circulation. The Dandy-Walker syndrome, surgery for aneurysms and cerebellopontine angle tumours were but a few areas where he made his mark and left a lasting legacy of neurosurgical endeavour.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK. jmsp@freenet.co.uk
authors.forename: J M S
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pearce
mesh_terms: D014695:Cerebral Ventriculography / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States