Background
EMDIN, Pavel was born in 1883.
Neuropathologist and neurosurgeon
EMDIN, Pavel was born in 1883.
1909 graduate Medical Faculty, Kazan’ University.
After graduation worked at L.O.Darkshevich’s Clinic. 1914 defended doctor's thesis on lesions of the striated muscles after neurotomy. During 1917 October Revol helped to organize medical service for Red Guards.
1920-1924 head, neurology department of a Rostov clinic. From 1924 head of a chair, Rostov Medical Institute, where he founded Clinic of Nervous Diseases and Neurosurgery which became the neurological and neurosurgical center for the Northern Caucasus and the southern Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He and his pupils were the first Soviet physicians to make extensive use of pneumoencephalography and ventriculography.
Devised method of cisternal puncture. Was one of first Soviet physicians to describe clinical aspects and histopathology of Economo’s epidemic encephalitis. Did considerable research on neurooncology, notably on atypical growth of neuroglias, multiform glioblastomas, neurinomas of auditory nerve, gliomas of posterior cranial fossa, and surgical and radiation therapy of brain tumors.
During World War 2 developed phase theory of course of cerebral wounds and devised various surgical treatments for injuries of peripheral nerves. Described sacral syndrome. Devised silk mesh for use in cranio-plasty.
Coauthor, neurology section, Bol’shaya meditsmskaya entsiklopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed). Member, ed council, journal Voprosy neyrokhirurgiir, wrote over 150 works.
God can not be proven by science which is the main way we study and understand our universe or natural world.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.