Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: surgical technique
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Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: surgical technique.
The requirements for modern psychosurgery are safety and accuracy. Stereotactic techniques give the geometric accuracy and stimulation gives physiological information, which is important in determining lesion sites or at least lesion symmetry. The process whereby focal brain destruction is produced is ideally by a freezing probe, but equally effectively by coagulation. A number of small lesions...
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The requirements for modern psychosurgery are safety and accuracy. Stereotactic techniques give the geometric accuracy and stimulation gives physiological information, which is important in determining lesion sites or at least lesion symmetry. The process whereby focal brain destruction is produced is ideally by a freezing probe, but equally effectively by coagulation. A number of small lesions...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.49.578.860