Exactly 20 years ago, Dr. Boris Zurita-Cueva published in this journal an article entitled “The Subfrontal Approach: Is It Really Minimally Invasive?”, the reading of which prompted us to recall and write about how medicine has evolved in its surgical intervention techniques over the years.
Although Zurita-Cueva’s work¹ refers to Krause’s description from 1908, it is worth highlighting that the technique originated from trepanations—one of the oldest examples of surgical procedures—practiced since the Neolithic period in a large number of primitive cultures spread across five continents
