Russel dorothy stuart (1 Ergebnisse)

Brain, 54/4. - London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1931, 8°, 44 pp., 13 Figs., orig. Broschur. Offprint! "The discovery of spinal metastases from a cerebral glioma in the first case described in this paper led us in 1928 to make a routine examination of the spinal cord in all cases of intracranial tumour, and as a result unexpected lesions of the spinal cord and its membranes have been brought to light. The frequency with which intracranial tumours are accompanied by tumours or other lesions in the spinal cord has in the past been greatly under-estimated. Our cases show clearly that no true indication of the frequency is given by clinical examination alone." Cairns & Russel Dorothy Stuart Russell (1895-1983) After completing her studies, she became a junior doctor at the London Hospital under the pathologist Hubert Maitland Turnbull, where she devoted herself to the systematic study of kidney diseases and obtained her doctorate. Her interest in neuropathology was awakened during two research stays in Boston (with the pathologist Frank Burr Mallory) and Montreal (with the neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield). In 1930 she returned to the London Hospital, where she established neuropathology. After a period in Oxford, where she succeeded Pío del Río Hortega at the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1940, she returned to London in 1944 and became head of the Bernard Baron Institute of Pathology in 1946. This made Russell the first woman ever to hold a leading position in pathology. One of Russell's scientific focuses was research into brain tumours. Among other things, she differentiated primary lymphomas of the brain from the group of malignant gliomas and researched the spread (metastasis) of tumour cells along the fluid spaces of the brain. Her textbook Pathology of tumours of the nervous system, written together with Lucien J. Rubinstein (1924-1990), has remained a standard work of neuropathology. From 1929, Russell worked closely with Hugh Cairns until around 1944, at the Medical Research Council. Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns KBE FRCS (1896-1952) was an Australian neurosurgeon. For most of his life he lived in England. His concern about despatch rider injuries sparked research which led to increased use of motorcycle helmets.…