title: The Cushing-Dandy conflict—the Dandy family perception of the discord.
abstract: The rivalry between Harvey Cushing and Walter Dandy has long fascinated neurosurgeons. Once a mentor to Dandy, Cushing saw his pupil's cunning prowess in the laboratory and unique surgical skill rival his own, and he took years to embrace some of Dandy's innovations, the most well-known of which was the technique of ventriculography. In this report, Dandy's great grandson draws on his family archives and personal letters of Dandy to lineate the evolution of the Dandy-Cushing relationship.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Patz
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Edward R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Laws
authors.affiliation: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address: athomas6@bidmc.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Ajith J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D014695:Cerebral Ventriculography / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history*
keywords: Conflict; Cushing; Dandy; Rivalry