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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1969) 115: 257-266. doi: 10.1192/bjp.115.520.257
© 1969 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Bi-frontal Stereotactic Tractotomy: An Atraumatic Operation of Value in the Treatment of Intractable Psychoneurosis

Part I. Anatomical and Surgical Observations

GEOFFREY C. KNIGHT F.R.C.S.1

1 Consultant Neurological Surgeon, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London W.12; Surgeon-in-Charge, South East Metropolitan Regional Neurosurgical Centre, Brook Hospital

1. Two hundred patients have been treated by stereotactic implantation of radioactive yttrium Y.90 in the substantia innominata under X-ray control.

2. The operation is harmless in that there is no mortality, no definite post-operative epilepsy, and no serious personality change.

3. Many patients suffering from depression can be improved by this operation when psychiatric treatment has failed.

Submitted on November 30, 1967






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