%0 Journal Article %T Trepanaciones hist¨®ricas y prehist¨®ricas en Venezuela %A G¨®mez-Gonz¨¢lez %A Jaime %A Brice£¿o-Iragorry %A Leopoldo %J Gaceta M¨¦dica de Caracas %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X 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. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0367-47622007000400005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en