Talk:Decompressive craniectomy

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The link to the full-text article by Aarabi may go dead if the JNS removes the article from the free ones. If you notice this has happened, please replace the link with this one, a link to the abstract on pubmed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16619648&query_hl=6&itool=pubmed_docsum thanks, delldot | talk 02:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It died, but the PMID is enough. delldot on a public computer talk 07:00, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article is misleading. The treatment is no longer controversial but is evidence-based and established treatment since several years back. There are multiple peer-reviewed papers supporting this.Foto (talk) 13:30, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Alzheimer disease

Interesting reading, but unfortunately (mostly) anecdotal evidence:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnj4qv/drilling-a-hole-in-your-head-for-a-higher-state-of-consciousness

"Aug 14 2013. Amanda Feilding claims trepanation might make us happier, healthier, and maybe help people at risk for Alzheimer's. She's not only an expert, she conducted the operation on herself".

ee1518 (talk) 17:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]