Hemispherectomy in an adult patient: four figures. Carbon dust drawing by A.J. Arnott, 1960.

  • Arnott, Audrey J.
Date:
May 6th 1960
Reference:
780079i
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Hemispherectomy in an adult patient: four figures. Carbon dust drawing by A.J. Arnott, 1960. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Hemispherectomy is described as follows in Wikipedia (7 December 2011): "Hemispherectomy is a very rare surgical procedure where one cerebral hemisphere (half of the brain) is removed or disabled. This procedure is used to treat a variety of seizure disorders where the source of the epilepsy is localized to a broad area of a single hemisphere of the brain. It is solely reserved for extreme cases in which the seizures have not responded to medications and other less invasive surgeries."

Publication/Creation

May 6th 1960.

Physical description

1 drawing : carbon dust ; sheet 30 x 30.5 cm

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Lettering

Operation for hemispherectomy on an adult patient. Carbon dust Label on front of mount: "Operation for hemispherectomy on an adult patient. Carbon dust." Further lettering on verso of mount: "May 6th 1960 [third digit of 1960 indistinct] Carbon dust drawing showing anatomical landmarks in an operation for hemispherectomy on an adult patient"

Notes

One item in a collection of photographs, paintings and drawings of human anatomical and pathological subjects by various authors, collected by the Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration in 1981; exhibited worldwide by the British Council; and presented by the Institute of Medical Illustrators to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1993

References note

British Council exhibition, The medical picture show [work of members of the Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration], London, Mexico City, Bucharest etc., 1981

Reference

Wellcome Collection 780079i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in ‘Cerebro(s)/Brain(s)’ at CCCB, Barcelona, 27th July – 11th December 2022
Exhibited in "Brains" at Wellcome Collection, London, 29 March 2012 - 17 June 2012

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