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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries surgeons started to learn the surgical techniques in the medical schools and universities along Europe. Indications, techniques and instruments related with trepanation were just the evolution of those described in the Greco-Roman period. With the aim to illustrate the use of the trepanation in these times, we describe two very-well-portrayed cases of cranial trauma suffered by the king Henry II of France and the prince Don Carlos of Spain. The proposal of cranial surgery in relevant people suggests that trepanation was a known, accepted and practiced surgical technique in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries along Europe.
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González-Darder, J.M. (2019). ‘State of the Art’ of the Trepanation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In: Trepanation, Trephining and Craniotomy . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22212-3_12
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