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 intracranial neoplasm that has had the most effect on the development of neurologic surgery, very likely the intracranial meningioma would be pro minently considered.' Harvey Cushing3) suggested the term "meningioma" when he delivered the Cavendish Lecture in 1922. He was the first to use electrocautery in intracranial surgery to remove a meningioma of the olfactory groove in 1927.4