Bernard Pertuiset


Bernard Pertuiset was a French neurosurgeon, born in Paris on 28 October, 1920.
He spent four years of internship in a service of neurology at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital with T. Alajouanine. He got his medical diploma in 1949, writing a thesis on cranioplasty. He was an assistant of Dr Petit-Dutaillis in La Pitie Hospital neurosurgical service where he developed his career until retirement on 1 October 1990. In 1949-1950, he acted at the Montreal Neurological Institute as a research fellow in neurophysiology under the direction of H. Jasper, and also was allowed by W. Penfield to analyze the records of operated epileptic patients and involvement in a paper on bitemporal epilepsy.
From 1949 to 1990, he wrote, as senior author, 356 papers on all aspects of neurosurgery. Moreover, he wrote: 4 books on epidermoids, Cranio cerebral topography, Acoustic neuromas and Ruptured saccular aneurysms. Most of his clinical and fundamental research was devoted to cerebral vascular malformations. He delivered 3 international lectures: Olivecrona in Stockholm, European in Warsaw and at Henrich Kluver in Chicago.
He developed the profound arterial hypotension technique to make open aneurysmal surgery in a safer way. He developed a neurosurgical service of 90 beds, with a staff of 2 Associate Professors and 3 neurosurgeons. Co-founders of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery.

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