Dandy-Walker syndrome

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Historical Perspective

• In 1954 the term Dandy-Walker Syndrome was introduced by a German psychiatrist Clemens Benda in the light of the following discoveries,
  • In 1914, American neurosurgeon Walter Dandy and American pediatrician Kenneth Blackfan recognized the association between the partial or complete absence of cerebellar vermis, hydrocephalus, and fourth ventricular enlargement.
  • In 1942, Canadian-American neurosurgeon Arthur Earl Walker and American physician John Taggart contributed by highlighting the possible cause to be the maldevelopment of the foramen of Lushka and Magendie.
• In 1887, John Bland Sutton an English surgeon first described the association of underdeveloped cerebellar vermis, hydrocephalus, and an enlarged posterior fossa.