A simple self-retaining cerebral retractor. Technical note.
A flexible copper spatula, usually used by us as retractor in brain surgery, was easily converted to become self-retaining without any other apparatus, by a simple minor modification.
Suzuki
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Department of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Sobata
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Ogane
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Sekiya
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Iwabuchi
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D001921:Brain / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments