The Department of Neurosurgery of Southern Hospital was established in 1958, which is an earlier neurosurgical unit in China. Professor Li, the first director, is one of the earliest neurosurgical experts in China and the first neurosurgical expert group member in China. 1965 successfully performed hemispherectomy for glioma, and won the third-class merit for it. By 1979, the department has been able to carry out myelography, ventriculography, pneumoencephalography and selective cerebral angiography, as well as titanium plate skull repair, hydrocephalus shunt, supratentorial and infratentorial craniotomy, brain tumor resection, spinal cord tumor operation and various craniocerebral injury operations. 1979 began to recruit senior doctors all over the country. 1980 has successively carried out surgical treatment of various tumors such as sellar region, posterior cranial fossa, cerebellopontine angle, intracranial aneurysm and cerebral arteriovenous malformation, but the number of cases is small. 1979- 1985. On the basis of animal experiments, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, intracranial and extracranial artery bypass surgery and temporal muscle application are widely used. 198 1- 1982 began stereotactic surgery to treat syringomyelia, cranial cavity stenosis, torsion spasm and spastic torticollis. 1980- 1983 Professor Chen Jingxian performed thalamic tumor resection (10 or above) 1984 introduced a special operating microscope for applied neurosurgery (made in Japan), 1984 became the first unit in the province to recruit neurosurgical postgraduates (the tutor was Professor Li, the first. 1985 southern hospital introduced the first magnetic resonance (MR) equipment in China and applied it to neurosurgery for the first time.
From 65438 to 0989, after Professor Wende was appointed as the director of the department, microsurgical techniques were gradually popularized and improved, mainly for intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, acoustic neuromas and some complex skull base meningiomas. After 1990, pineal region and brain stem tumors were operated, but the number of cases was small. At the same time, posterior cranial fossa and microvascular decompression were performed to treat trigeminal nerve diseases. Starting from 199 1, the department first carried out epileptic focus resection (treatment of intractable epilepsy) under the monitoring of cortical EEG in the province. 199 1 The department introduced OPTON surgical microscope and CUSA, 1994 introduced X knife. The neurosurgery department of Southern Hospital became one of the earliest units to carry out stereotactic reflex surgery in China. 1995 introduces microelectrode-guided stereotactic surgery (cell knife technology), 1996-1998 introduces special operating table for neurosurgery, snake brand and other high-speed electric drills and Zeiss balance microscope.
From 65438 to 0998, after Professor Qi Songtao became the head of the department, the scale of the department continued to expand, the business technology developed in an all-round way, the subject characteristics became more obvious, and the technical level improved obviously. After nearly 40 years of construction, by 2000, the Department of Neurosurgery in Southern Hospital had become a large neurosurgery center integrating medical treatment, teaching and scientific research, with an annual operation volume of 1500 and 65,438 clinical beds. Among them, ICU ward of independent specialist is one of the largest and most functional neurosurgical units in China and South China, which can carry out modern treatment of almost all neurosurgical diseases, and has reached the advanced level at home and abroad in medical technology, equipment and operation success rate, and is the neurosurgery with the largest amount of operations in South China. Over the past 20 years, more than 200 senior doctors have been recruited from all over the country, with 56% of the patients coming from Guangdong Province and the rest from all over the country, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and Southeast Asia.