Resumo

GOMEZ-GONZALEZ, Jaime  e  BRICENO-IRAGORRY, Leopoldo. Trepanaciones históricas y prehistóricas en Venezuela. Gac Méd Caracas. [online]. 2007, vol.115, n.4, pp.292-296. ISSN 0367-4762.

Authors present the preliminary report on the first trepanned skull in the pre-Columbian period in Venezuela. References are made on the first skull interventions published in Venezuela during the XVIII and XIX centuries by distinguished precursors surgeons of the neurologic surgery. Other interventions performed during the XVI and XVII centuries in Latinoamerica are also quoted.