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References from Historical Vignette on Trepanation: The Evolution of Opening the Skull. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Neolithic trepanation decoded-a unifying hypothesis: Has the mystery as to why primitive surgeons performed cranial surgery been solved?
10.4103/2152-7806.156634 · 2015 · External reference
Survival after trepanation-early cranial surgery from Late Iron Age Switzerland
10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.08.002 · 2015 · External reference
Trepanation procedures/outcomes: comparison of prehistoric Peru with other ancient, medieval, and American Civil War cranial surgery
10.1016/j.wneu.2018.03.143 · 2018 · External reference
The evolution of craniotomies, from the ancient civilizations to modern warfare: a historical review
10.1016/j.jocn.2026.112131 · 2026 · External reference
Craniotomy
2026 · External reference
10.1186/s41073-019-0064-8 · 2019 · Admitted local publication
Cranial surgery in antiquity: the size of trepanations during the Neolithic period in France
10.1016/j.wneu.2024.07.042 · 2024 · External reference
Decision making in head injury management in the Edwin Smith Papyrus
10.3171/foc-07/07/e5 · 2007 · External reference
The skull of Chios: trepanation in Hippocratic medicine
10.3171/2014.4.jns131886 · 2014 · External reference
Hippocrates, Galen, and the uses of trepanation in the ancient classical world
10.3171/foc-07/07/e11 · 2007 · External reference
Trepanations in the ancient Greek colony of Akanthos: Skull surgery in the light of Hippocratic medicine
10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.07.008 · 2021 · External reference
Chapter two: trepanation technique
10.1016/bs.pbr.2024.02.002 · 2024 · External reference
A history of the surgery of the cranial sutures
10.1080/02688697.2023.2204928 · 2025 · External reference
What does Al-Qanun Fi Al-Tibb (the Canon of medicine) say on head injuries?
10.1007/s10143-009-0205-5 · 2009 · External reference
Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 AD): on the surgical treatment of neurological disorders by the father of operative surgery
10.1016/j.wneu.2024.01.169 · 2024 · External reference
Trepanations from the early medieval period of southwestern Germany-indications, complications and outcome (Article in German)
10.1055/s-2001-16333 · 2001 · External reference
Trephined skulls in Hungary (Article in Hungarian)
2007 · External reference
History of Neurotrauma: a tale from the Medieval Ages and the Renaissance
10.25122/jml-2023-1001 · 2023 · External reference
De Humani Corporis Fabrica surgical revolution
10.1080/08941930802330830 · 2008 · External reference
Ambroise Paré: his contribution to the future advancement of neurosurgery and the hardships of his times affecting his life and brilliant career
10.1016/j.wneu.2019.10.187 · 2020 · External reference
Discourses on the Nature and Cure of Wounds
1807 · External reference
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) and his contributions to early neurosurgery
10.1007/s00381-011-1666-8 · 2012 · External reference
Historical development of modern anesthesia
10.3109/08941939.2012.690328 · 2012 · External reference
Joseph Lister (1827-1912): a pioneer of antiseptic surgery
10.7759/cureus.32777 · 2022 · External reference
William Macewen and the first documented successful resection of a brain tumor
10.1007/s00381-023-05825-3 · 2023 · External reference
Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916): pioneer of neurological surgery
10.1097/00006123-200203000-00032 · 2002 · External reference
Victor Horsley on "trephining in pre-historic times"
10.1097/00006123-200104000-00045 · 2001 · External reference
The crucial decade: modern neurosurgery's definitive development in Harvey Cushing's early research and practice, 1900 to 1910
10.3171/jns.1997.87.6.0964 · 1997 · External reference
Early evolution of neurological surgery: conquering increased intracranial pressure, infection, and blood loss
10.3171/foc.2005.18.4.3 · 2005 · External reference
Ventriculography following the injection of air into the cerebral ventricles
10.1097/00000658-191807000-00002 · 1918 · External reference
Decompressive craniectomy: from ancient practices to modern neurosurgery
10.7759/cureus.64923 · 2024 · External reference
Advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented and virtual reality in neurosurgery
10.3389/fsurg.2023.1241923 · 2023 · External reference
