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229: 172: 67:. In 1948, Freeman embellished the procedure by adding the deep frontal cut, an additional swing of the pick deep into the lobe which placed such an increase of strain on the instrument that it occasionally snapped off while in the patient's head, necessitating surgical retrieval. Thus, Freeman had the orbitoclast specially commissioned as a more durable and reliable replacement. 54:
with some gradation marks etched onto the shaft. The operation involved placing the pick behind the eye socket of the patient and breaking through the thin layer of bone found there by applying a hammer to the end of the pick and driving the instrument into the
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Because actual ice picks were used in initial experimentation and because of continued close resemblance to ice pick shafts, the procedure was dubbed "ice pick lobotomy".
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used up until that point for the transorbital lobotomy procedure. This instrument is, essentially, an
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surgical instrument
transorbital lobotomies
Walter Freeman
leucotome
ice pick
frontal lobes
frontal lobes
thalamus
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Egas Moniz
leucotomy
Lobotomy
Leucotome
Instruments used in general surgery
The Rise and Fall of Frontal Leucotomy
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