Aloysio de Mattos Pimenta, Brazilian neuropsychiatrist (Rio de Janeiro 13 December 1912 – June 1987)
With J.M. de Castro. Avaliação prática do volume de sangue perdido em neurocirurgia. Nova variante técnica para a avaliação visual. Rev. Paul. Med. 47:375-8, 1955
Derivação aracnoido-ileo-vesical com alça intestinal totalmente excluída no tratamento da hidrocefalia. Nota prévia (1956)
Hemopalidotomia – modificação da técnica de Cooper (1959)
With L.H. Mattos Pimenta & M. Okamura described Black/Amazonas River syndrome (1973), an arteriovenous difference between both sides of brain hemisphere
With L.H. Mattos Pimenta & M. Okamura. Carotid fibromuscular dysplasia: crushing therapeutic method. Seara Med. Neurocir. 13(1):23-9, 1984
With M. Okamura. O implante miodural subcortical, novo tratamento da isquemia cerebral. I. Bases teóricas. Seara Med. Neuroc. 14(4):177-86, 1985
Mattos Pimenta leucotomy
HONOURS
President, International Congress of Neurosurgery (1977)
Correspondent Member, American Association of Neurological Surgeons (1969)
Honorary Vice-President, III International Congress of Neurological Surgery, Kopenhagen (1965)
His son, Luiz Henrique de Mattos Pimenta, neurosurgeon (30 March 1947 –
Co-developed XLIF (extreme lateral interbody fussion) technique for minimally invasive spine surgery
Developed cervical discal prosthesis (PCM)
HONOURS
President, World Society of Spinal Cord
President, International Society for Advancement of Spinal Cord Surgery (2013-4)