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Acta Neurochir., 10/5. - Wien, Springer-Verlag, 1962, 8°, pp.501-511, orig. self wrappers. Offprint! "Judging by the literature published from the end of the last century to the present day, the frequency of spinal cord compression by intrarachid tumours in children is low compared with that in adults. Stursberg estimated it at 8.5% at the beginning of the century, Adson and Ott at 1.9% in 1922 and Stookey at 5% in 1928. Grant and Austin put the figure at 7.5% in 1956, while Dandy estimated it at 14.3% in 1925. Finally, in 1956, Nittner reported a frequency of 15%. It is also interesting to note that Schlesinger found 24% in his necropsy statistics in 1898; around the same time, Collins found a figure of 3.5% in operative statistics and 15% in autopsy results. It would appear, therefore, that the rarity of these tumours has diminished over time, and the tendency of clinical statistics to match autopsy observations seems to prove that this condition, although rarer in children, is now better diagnosed. Our personal statistics cover the last nine years and include 16 cases of intrarachid tumours in children under 15 years of age; we have observed 79 cases in adults over the same period, with childhood tumours thus accounting for 20% of the total number. To clarify the scope of this study, we should point out that our statistics concern only primary expansive intrarachid lesions. We have excluded metastases of intracranial tumours or other organs, compression by congenital anomalies (with the exception of epidermoid, dermoid or teratoid cysts), traumatic, vascular and infectious lesions (Pott, parasitosis, abscesses) as well as fluid collections and lipomas." Dereymaeker, et al. (Translated from French) Albert Dereymaeker (1916 -1988), Neurology - Neurosurgery - Medical ethics, "He first undertook a year's specialisation in neurology in Paul Van Gehuchten's department, before being drawn to the neurosurgery practised by Jean Morelle as an adjunct to general surgery between 1930 and 1950. He trained in neurosurgery in Amsterdam (1941), in Paris with Clovis Vincent (1942), and then in general surgery in Brussels. Albert Dereymaeker became sole head of neurosurgery in 1954, when Jean Morelle took over from Georges Debaisieux as head of general surgery. He distinguished himself in particular by developing stereotactic andfunctional neurosurgery. In 1964, when the linguistic separation of the departments coincided with Paul Van Gehuchten's emeritus, Albert Dereymaeker was appointed chair of neurology and head of the neurology-neurosurgery department. From 1965 onwards, he was joined by colleagues Guy Stroobandt in neurosurgery and Christian Laterre in neurology, to ensure a collegial management of the department. In 1979, the chair of neurology was entrusted to Christian Laterre." Eloge par le Pr R. Van den Bergh - in Acta neurol. belg. 1988.