Development of Population Research at Mayo Clinic

Uveal Melanoma Research and Treatment at Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has a long history in the treatment of uveal melanomas. In the early 1980s, Dennis Robertson, MD, was one of the first to use iodine-125 plaques, the form of brachytherapy most commonly used for treatment of uveal melanomas in the United States today. The plaques used in the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS), a multicenter study initiated in 1985 to...

Intracranial meningiomas: experiences at the Mayo Clinic.

18 to 20, 1978. On June 1, 1885, Francesco Durante, professor of clinical surgery at the University of Rome, performed the first successful operation for an intracranial tumor when he removed a pre dominantly unilateral meningioma of the left olfactory groove. This procedure followed the celebrated Bennett-Godlee case, which resulted in a fatality, by only 6 months.' If we were to designate an ...

The first anesthetizers at the Mayo Clinic.

Mayo Clinic Papers, 1912

subject within the available space. The first two hundred odd pages contain many and varied papers on subjects connected with The Alimentary Canal. In making mention of two only, namely, one on " The Diagnostic Worth of the Glycyltryptopban and Tryptophan Tests in Diseases of the Stomach," and the other on "Intestinal Diverticula," it is evident that, in the variety offered for perusal in this ...

A brief history of audiology at Mayo Clinic.

Audiometric hearing tests were conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester at the beginning of the 1930s. The list price for one of its audiometers at that time was 3,500 dollars, which translates into approximately 37,000 dollars in 2003 currency. Physicians and residents in training were responsible for conducting hearing tests in the 1930s and 1940s. In the early 1940s a registered nurse was t...