The Department of Neurosurgery of Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University (former First Military Medical University) is a key discipline of Guangdong Province, a key specialty of the province, a candidate unit of the national key disciplines, and a unit of doctoral and master's degree-granting authority. In the same industry in the province, the department of a number of medical services and technology to carry out early, rapid development, distinctive features.
The Department of Neurosurgery of Nanfang Hospital was founded in 1958, which is a neurosurgical unit established earlier in China. The first director, Prof. Li Shaoqing, was one of the earliest neurosurgery experts in China, and was a member of the first national neurosurgery group, which successfully performed cerebral hemispherectomy to treat gliomas in 1965, for which he was honored with a third-class merit. By 1979, the department was able to carry out myelography, ventriculography, pneumoencephalography, selective cerebral angiography, titanium plate cranial repair, hydrocephalus shunt, craniotomy above and below the cerebellar tentacle, resection of brain tumors, surgery for spinal cord tumors, and various kinds of cranio-cerebral injuries, and began to recruit doctors for further training in 1979, and before and after 1980, the Department was able to treat various kinds of saddle tumors, tumors in the posterior cranial fossa, tumors in the cerebellar horn area, tumors in the craniocerebellar area, and cranial tumors. Around 1980, various tumors in the saddle area, tumors in the posterior cranial fossa, tumors in the cerebellar horn area, intracranial aneurysms, cerebral arteriovenous malformations and other surgical treatments were carried out successively, but the number of cases was relatively small. 1979-1985, on the basis of animal experiments, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, intracranial-extracranial arterial bypass grafting and temporal muscle patch surgery were carried out in a relatively large number of cases, and stereotactic surgery began to be carried out in 1981-1982, and the treatments for spinal cord cavernous disease and narrow cranial spine syndrome, torsion spasm, spasticity In 1980-1983, Prof. Chen Jingxian carried out thalamus tumor resection (more than 10 cases), introduced and applied special CT for cranial brain in early 1983, introduced and applied special operating microscope for neurosurgery in 1984 (made in Japan) (before it was a domestic microscope), and in 1984, it became the first unit in the province that recruited the master's degree students of neurosurgery (supervisor Prof. Li Shaoqing), and the first graduate student was Jiang Weiguo, and the first graduate student was Jiang Weiguo.
In 1984, Nanfang Hospital became the first unit in the province to enroll a master's degree student in neurosurgery (supervised by Prof. Li Shaoqing, the first graduate student was Jiang Weiguo), and in 1985, Nanfang Hospital introduced the first MR (magnetic *** vibration) equipment in the country, which was the first to be applied to the diagnosis and treatment of neurosurgical diseases, and for this reason, Prof. Chen Jingxian made a speech on the First National Neurosurgical Academic Conference.
In 1989, after Prof. Ren Wende was appointed as the director of the department, the microscopic neurosurgery technique was gradually popularized and improved, and focused on intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, acoustic neuromas, and part of the complex skull base meningiomas, and after 1990, the pineal region and brain stem tumors were carried out, but with fewer cases, and at the same time, the posterior cranial fossa and microvascular decompression were carried out to treat In 1991, the department was the first in the province to carry out epileptic foci resection under cortical EEG monitoring (for intractable epilepsy); in 1991, the department introduced OPTON operating microscope and super-absorbent knife (CUSA), and in 1994, it introduced the X-knife, which made the neurosurgery department of Nanfang Hospital one of the earliest in the country in stereotactic reflexology treatment. In 1995, the introduction of microelectrode-guided stereotactic surgery (cytoknife technology), 1996-1998, the introduction of neurosurgery special operating beds, Snake and other high-speed drills, Zeiss balanced microscopes and so on.
In 1998, after Professor Chia Songtao became the director of the department, the scale of the department has been expanding, the business technology has been developing comprehensively, the characteristics of the discipline have been further obvious, and the technical level has been significantly improved. After nearly 40 years of construction, by 2000, the Department of Neurosurgery of Nanfang Hospital has been a large neurosurgery center integrating medical treatment, teaching and scientific research in one of the three-dimensional, and the number of surgeries per year reaches 1,500, and the number of beds is 103, including the number of beds for clinical development. With 103 beds, including independent specialized ICU wards, it is one of the larger neurosurgical units in China and the largest and most comprehensive one in South China, which can carry out modern treatment for almost all neurosurgical diseases, and has reached the point that there is no forbidden zone for surgical treatment of all central nervous system diseases and intracranial tumors, and has reached the domestic and international advanced level in terms of medical technology, equipment possessing and surgical success rate, and is the largest neurosurgical center in South China in terms of the volume of operations. The largest neurosurgery. more than 20 years, **** recruited from all over the country for further training of more than 200 doctors, patient source 56% from Guangdong Province, the rest from all over the country, including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.