In former days trephining was a much more frequent operation than it is now, and apparently more successful.
There was no sign of focal lesion, but a trephining operation was done, which healed perfectly.
He remarks upon the extreme analogy, not to say identity, between the late sequelae of trephining and the syndrome of commotio cerebri.
Stromeyer, who in the early part of his professional career resorted to trephining in complicated fractures of the skull, records, in his Principles of Military Surgery, that he has abandoned the practice.
There was, therefore, as extensive a range for observation of the effects of trephining in the siege of Sebastopol as is likely to happen in any war.
Ballinghall particularly illustrates the favorable results of abstaining from trephining in some cases.
Throughout the three campaigns of the Sleswick–Holstein war, there was only one case of trephining which gave a favorable result.
Preventive trephining has been proved to be useless, as well as dangerous, and is no longer an admissible operation.
It is in such cases, I repeat, that the operation of trephining is imperiously called for.
Trephining is the best possible way to remove it in such cases, as the operation immediately opens the cavity, which can be attended to direct.
The means to be employed are the trephining of the skull over the seat of the fracture and the elevation of the depressed bone or the removal of the portion which is causing the trouble.
It has never been my good fortune to notice an example of trephining among our savage tribes, although I have seen a good many wounded, some of them in the head.
Trephining has been practiced by the aborigines of America, and the whole subject as noted among the primitive peoples of all parts of the globe has been treated in a monograph by Dr.
He rejected treatment of the condition by surgery of the head, either by trephining or by incisions or by cauterization.
One might well expect that, with trephining as frequent as this textbook of the Four Masters more than hints, the death-rate of these medieval surgeons must have been very high in head cases.
Fletcher, and a paper on “Trephining in the Neolithic Period,” in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Nov.
The treatment consists in trephining through the frontal bone or through the temporal fossa, according to the site of the abscess and its seat of origin.
Signs of increasing compression call for trephining and opening of the dura if this is necessary to admit of the clot being removed.
The treatment of punctured wounds consists in enlarging the wounds in the soft parts, trephining the skull, and removing any foreign body that may be in it, purifying the track, and establishing drainage.
Lately I've been studying the history oftrephining and the cases where it has been employed.
Anne, I have come to the conclusion that if Dick Moore were taken to a good hospital and the operation of trephining performed on several places in his skull, his memory and faculties might be restored.
I do not advise trephiningin the secondary glaucoma following intumescent cataract, for in such cases the semi-fluid lens bulges into and blocks the trephine hole.
The addition of an iridectomy in every case of trephining does not unduly complicate the operation and has much to commend it in offering the patient every possibility of relief.
Trephining is an operation which can be performed by any surgeon who is used to ophthalmic manipulations, and who has good sight.
Those of us who have had the pleasure of seeing the trephining operation done by Col.
Increasing belief in Colonel Elliot's view that trephining should be the operation of choice in any form of glaucoma, makes it difficult to consider operations other than trephining in anything but a spirit of disfavor.
It is not for a moment necessary that the surgeon who wishes to learn trephining should see the originator of the operation at work.
Fourth: That to glaucoma may be added buphthalmos and staphyloma, as diseases often capable of relief by trephining and indeed toward the relief of which trephining is the best form of operation yet presented.
Operations Other than Scleral Trephining for the Relief of Glaucoma BY CASEY A.
Operations Other than Scleral Trephiningfor the Relief of Glaucoma.
First: The operation of trephining is suitable, not merely for chronic cases, but for sub-acute and acute cases of glaucoma as well.
In these cases trephining of the skull and the removal of irritation from the brain has been followed by the most successful results.
Trephining directly over the area of the abscess (rarely necessary).
For whatever reason trephining is done, it is afterwards essential to perform the mastoid operation and to remove the primary focus of the disease, otherwise one of the fundamental principles of surgery will be neglected.
The only circumstances in which trephining may be advised are--(1) If the diagnosis be certain and the operator has no experience of aural surgery.
They practised trephiningsuccessfully (an art derived from their Yauyu ancestors), and they also frequently indulged in the anterio-posterior type of cranial deformation.
Foreest attributes to his master, Benedictus of Faenza, the merit of having introduced into therapeutics the trephining of teeth for the cure of certain violent pains not accompanied by any external lesion of the tooth.
Mondeville had no such fear of trephining as Lanfranc had, though he did not hesitate to emphasize the value of expectant treatment in most of these cases of injury to the head that might seem at first to demand the trephine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trephining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bore; boring; penetration; perforation; piercing; puncture
