Preconquest Peruvian neurosurgeons: A study of Inca and pre-Columbian trephination and the art of medicine in ancient Peru

Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 940-950

  Marino Jr , Raul ^a   Gonzales Portillo, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Neurosurgery   (Peru)

Author keywords

Inca; Peru; Pre Columbian neurosurgery; Trephination

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GOLD; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; QUININE; SILVER;

CRANIECTOMY; HISTORY; NEUROSURGERY; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL SURGERY; SURGEON;

EID: 0034494149     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200010000-00028     Document Type: Review

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