title: A simple self-retaining cerebral retractor. Technical note.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sobata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogane
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sekiya
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwabuchi
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments