Due to the special characteristics of neurosurgery, the application of hospital microscope in neurosurgery is slightly later than that of otology and ophthalmology, and neurosurgeons are also learning this new technology in a very special way. At that time, the use of medical microscope is mainly in Europe, the United States ophthalmologist Perrit in 1946 first introduced the medical microscope from Europe to the United States, for the United States neurosurgeons to use the medical microscope to lay the foundation.
From the perspective of respecting the value of human life, any new technology, new equipment, new instruments used in the human body should be carried out in advance of animal experiments and the operator's technical training. 1955, the United States neurosurgeon Malis used binocular medical microscopes to do brain surgery on animals. The neurosurgeon Kurze of the University of Southern California in the United States after observing the otological microscope surgery, spent a year in the laboratory to learn the use of clinical microscopy equipment surgical techniques, in August 1957 using the otological medical microscope for a 5-year-old child to successfully do the acoustic neuroma surgery, which is the world's first microscopic This was the first microscopic neurosurgery in the world. Shortly thereafter, Kurze performed a successful facial nerve-sublingual nerve anastomosis on the same child using a medical microscope, which resulted in a particularly good recovery, the second microscopic neurosurgery in the world. Since then, Kurze has travelled around the world performing microscopic neurosurgery with his microscope in a truck and has recommended the use of the professional lab microscope to other neurosurgeons, and has since performed brain aneurysm clamping with the microscope (unfortunately, he has not published an article on the subject). In 1961, with the financial support of a patient he treated for trigeminal nerve disorders, he established the world's first microscopic skull base neurosurgery laboratory. We should always remember Kurze's contribution to microscopic neurosurgery and learn from his courage in accepting new technologies and ideas.
However, until the early 1990s, some Chinese neurosurgeons did not receive the medical microscope for surgery, but the medical microscope is the symbol of modern neurosurgery. It will eventually become an indispensable equipment in the medical industry.
