NeuroSurgery InfoNet	O.R.	Patient education
Incision		Understand Your Operation Approaches - Exposures - Incisions - Landmarks  - Positions - Instruments - Techniques - Operations - Risks - Consent
An incision is a cut through skin with a knife. Head Back Extremity	Incision figure : 1. presigmoid retrolabyrinthine, 2. translabyrinthine, 3. transcochlear, 4. preauricular transpetrosal

Head

     bicoronal

     burr holes

     temporal

     occipital

     pterional posterior frontal

     stereotactic biopsy

     straight line

     suboccipital midline

     suboccipital paramidline

     temporal

     trauma

     ventricular shunt

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Spinal

     anterior cervical disc

     cervical laminectomy

     lateral extracavitary

     lumbar laminectomy

     thoracic laminectomy

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Extremity

     carpal tunnel

     deltopectoral groove

     peroneal knee

     supraclavicular plexus

     sural nerve

     ulnar transposition

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