Brain Surgeon Without a Scalpel

"This memoir chronicles the remarkable career of one of the most influential innovators in modern brain surgery, Dr. Lawrence Dade Lunsford. A distinguished professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh, he spent 50 years pioneering image-guided and minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques. From creating the first image-guided operating room in 1981 to establishing the United States' first Gamma Knife radiosurgery theater in 1987, he transformed the treatment of brain tumors, vasc