Guido Nikkhah · Marcus Pinsker
Editors

2013

More than 60 years ago, Traugott Riechert, Max Wolff, and Fritz Mundinger inaugurated a new targeting device for intracerebral interventions which later became world- famous as the Riechert–Mundinger stereotactic system . This was the basis for an important development in the history of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. One of the fi rst milestone operations with this system was performed on November 14, 1952. During this day, the Freiburg team performed for the fi rst time in the history of medicine a neurosurgical operation by stereotactic means to lesion a deeply seated nucleus of the basal ganglia.