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- An orbitoclast was a surgical instrument used for performing transorbital lobotomies. Because actual ice picks were used in initial experimentation and...
- transorbital approach, a transorbital lobotomy, involved placing an orbitoclast (an instrument resembling an ice pick) under the eyelid and against the...
- an orbitoclast was later used. Lobotomies were commonly performed from the 1930s to the 1960s, with a few as late as the 1980s in France. Orbitoclast Lobotomy...
- and placing the point of a thin surgical instrument (often called an orbitoclast or leucotome, although quite different from the wire loop leucotome described...
- 978 in 2022). During the procedure, a long, sharp instrument called an orbitoclast was inserted through each of Dully's eye sockets 7 centimeters (2.8 in)...
- also dubbed the "ice pick lobotomy" because the instrument used, an orbitoclast, was very similar to a common ice pick. The new procedure also signaled...
- 2 March 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2023. Proteque[dead link] "Orbitoclast". orbitoclast.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 31 August 2023. "Proteque on Apple Music"...
- need for a neurosurgeon. He hammered an ice pick-like instrument, an orbitoclast, through the eye socket and swept through the frontal lobes. The transorbital...
- (defunct) Psychosurgery Lobotomy (defunct) Lobotomy instruments Leucotome Orbitoclast Lobotomy patients Howard Dully Pyrotherapy (defunct) Psychotherapy List...