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Leukotomy

Known as: Leucotomies, Leucotomy, Leukotomies 
National Institutes of Health

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2018
2018
A purely functional Imaging based approach for transcortical resection of lesion involving the dominant atrium: Towards safer, imaging-guided, tailored cortico-leucotomies
2007
2007
Vagal nerve stimulation versus deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: show me the data.
rom its earliest days, neurosurgery for psychiatric disor-ders has been surrounded by controversy. Walter Freeman(a… 
1992
1992
Neurologic outcome of patients with dorsolateral prefrontal leukotomy.
Few controlled studies of neurologic function in frontal leukotomy patients have been done. The authors compared neurologic… 
1971
1971
Failed Leucotomy with Misplaced Cuts: A Clinico-anatomical Study of Two Cases
Failure of treatment does not necessarily mean inappropriate treatment; it must first be ascertained that the treatment has been… 
1970
1970
A new look at bimedial prefrontal leukotomy.
Forty-four selected patients with "hard core" functional psychiatric illness were treated by bimedial prefrontal leukotomy, in… 
1959
1959
Die zentralen Systeme des Schmerzes
Der Schmerz als BewuBtseinsers.cheinung wird hier nicht ph~inomenologisch, sondern naturwissenschaffiich-biologisch nach den… 
1955
1955
Personality changes after rostral leucotomy: a comparison with standard prefrontal leucotomy.
The effect of rostral leucotomy on personality in a selected group of 120 non-psychotic patients followed up at home 1½ to 5… 
1954
1954
Leucotomy; a recent development.
In 1947 the Board of Control published its report on the results of 1,000 leucotomies, citing therein a mortality of 6 per cent… 
1952
1952
The lower quadrant leucotomy.
Summary The use of minimal incisions in the technique of prefrontal leucotomy is discussed, with particular reference to the… 
Review
1950
Review
1950
A follow-up investigation of 330 cases treated by prefrontal leucotomy.
The results of a follow-up investigation of 330 cases treated with pre-frontal leucotomy are reported. The types of cases in… 
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