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- A pulmonary tractotomy is a surgical technique to treat a penetrating lung injury. The tract of the lung injury is opened, and open bronchi and blood vessels...
- current or recent use are anterior capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy and limbic leucotomy. Lesions are made by radiation, thermo-coagulation...
- subcaudate region. The operation was then called stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy and by the mid-1970s, although only used at two neurosurgical units (which...
- Soviet Union and Europe. However, derivatives of it such as stereotactic tractotomy and bilateral cingulotomy are still used. Historically, patients of frontal...
- however, these symptoms disappeared only after an additional basofrontal tractotomy had been performed. There is a scarcity of long-term studies on the follow-up...
- continued apace. In Britain in 1964 Geoffrey Knight developed the subcaudate tractotomy, implanting radioactive seeds in the brain to destroy tissue. This was...
- subarachnoid abscess (cerebral), subdural empyema (01.32) Lobotomy and tractotomy Percutaneous (radiofrequency) cingulotomy (01.39) Other incision of brain...
- Atkinson Morley Hospital. The operation combines stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy and cingulotomy, with up to 14 cryogenic lesions made in the brain. Limbic...