Leucotome

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A leucotome is surgical instrument used for performing lobotomies. It was created by Nobel-winning Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1937 to replace the use of an icepick in transorbital lobotomies, such as those later commonly performed by Walter Freeman. It was replaced by the Orbitoclast as leucotomes commonly broke when subjected to stresses involved in Freeman's technique.

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• A leucotome from the University of Manchester Medical School Museum
• The Nobel Foundation page on prefrontal leukotomy