- 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...
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subcaudate region. The
operation was then
called stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy and by the mid-1970s,
although only used at two
neurosurgical units (which...
- 1950, and then Europe. However,
derivatives of it such as
stereotactic tractotomy and
bilateral cingulotomy are
still used. Historically,
patients of frontal...
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continued apace. In
Britain in 1964
Geoffrey Knight developed the
subcaudate tractotomy,
implanting radioactive seeds in the
brain to
destroy tissue. This was...
- 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...
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subarachnoid abscess (cerebral),
subdural empyema (01.32)
Lobotomy and
tractotomy Percutaneous (radiofrequency)
cingulotomy (01.39)
Other incision of brain...
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Atkinson Morley Hospital. The
operation combines stereotactic subcaudate tractotomy and cingulotomy, with up to 14
cryogenic lesions made in the brain. Limbic...
