“Groans less, seems more comfortable:” Harvey Cushing's redefinition of success in the operative treatment of pediatric intracranial lesions

摘要

Background Challenges to diagnosing and localizing intracranial lesions in pediatric patients were immense during the advent of neurosurgery. For patients with suspected intracranial tumors, but with negative findings on operation, there were few options. The role of palliative surgical interventions, from decompressive craniectomies to lumbar and ventricular punctures, is not well-represented in the literature during this early stage.