Historical review of operative microscope in the neurosurgery

ABSTRACT

Zacharias and Haus Janssen were the first manufacturers of the simple microscope, 1590. After that, Anton Von Leuwenhock was a German who created an inperfected glass with magnification of 270 times. Then, Carl Zeiss introduced the principle of the tri-dimentional telescope. By the 1960s, microscopes have been used rather widely in neurosurgery. Beginning from March, 1997, Dep of neurosurgery of Cho Ray hospital has applied the microscope in cerebral vascular diseases and brain tumors