leucotome การใช้
- See the articles Leucotome and Orbitoclast instruments developed for Lobotomy.
- The leucotome was then withdrawn and the procedure repeated on the other side.
- Another, different, surgical instrument also called a leucotome was introduced by Walter Freeman for use in the transorbital lobotomy.
- They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome and called the operation a leucotomy ( cutting of the white matter ).
- For the ninth patient they introduced a surgical instrument called a leucotome; this was a cannula that was in length and in diameter.
- In the procedure developed by Moniz, the " white matter " in the frontal lobes was severed using a leucotome, an instrument Moniz designed specifically for the procedure.
- The first operations involved injections of alcohol into the frontal lobes of patients to destroy white matter; Moniz then devised an instrument he called a leucotome to remove small cores of white matter.
- This new " transorbital " lobotomy involved lifting the upper eyelid and placing the point of a thin surgical instrument ( often called an orbitoclast or leucotome, although quite different from the wire loop leucotome described above ) under the eyelid and against the top of the eyesocket.
- This new " transorbital " lobotomy involved lifting the upper eyelid and placing the point of a thin surgical instrument ( often called an orbitoclast or leucotome, although quite different from the wire loop leucotome described above ) under the eyelid and against the top of the eyesocket.
- Surgeon John Crumbie designed his own leucotome ( instrument for cutting the white matter in the brain ) which was constructed by Warlingham s assistant clerk of works, and referred to by Wylie McKissock, who operated with a Cushing brain needle, as a " mechanical egg-whisk ".