Periscyphismus and Section of the Temporal Vessels: Two Byzantine Surgical Remedies for Headache Relief.

Autor:	Tsagkaris C; 618035Novel Global Community Educational Foundation, Hebersham, NSW, Australia.; Department of History of Medicine, 69156University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece., Trompoukis C; Department of History of Medicine, 69156University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece., Manios A; Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece., Papadakis M; Department of History of Medicine, 69156University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.; Department of Surgery II, 12263University Witten-Herdecke, Wuppertal, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Surgical innovation [Surg Innov] 2022 Oct; Vol. 29 (5), pp. 681-683. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jun 04.
DOI:	10.1177/15533506221106256
Abstrakt:	Headache is a prevalent clinical symptom and condition, whose management has been challenging from the antiquity to the 21st century. Physicians in the Greek, Roman and Byzantine antiquity employed surgical techniques to treat headache in patients presenting with persistent symptoms that were not alleviated with conservative means. A survey in the medical literature of the period reveals that two surgical procedures, periscyphismus and section of the temporal vessels, were developed for this purpose. The present study describes the techniques presented in the sources of the period and elaborates on their evolution and influence across different historical periods and contexts.
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