Concept information
Preferred term
Psychosurgery
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Gyrectomies
- Gyrectomy
- Leukotomies
- Leukotomy
- Lobotomies
- Lobotomy
- Topectomies
- Topectomy
Note
- coord IM with specific lobe /surg (NIM)
Scope note
- Treatment of chronic, severe and intractable psychiatric disorders by surgical removal or interruption of certain areas or pathways in the brain, especially in the prefrontal lobes.
In other languages
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Finnish
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psychochirurgia
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psykiatrinen kirurgia
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011612
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