Developing the First Highly Specialized Neurosurgical Center of Excellence in Trujillo, Peru: Work in Progress-Results of the First Four Months

An effective and adequate operative skill transfer to the local staff may be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time, thus guaranteeing a long-lasting improvement of neurosurgical care, while minimizing expenditures on personnel and capital. We believe that this is possible following a general microsurgical philosophy that can be simplified as follows: “simple, clean, fast, and preserving normal anatomy.”