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Transylvania). The surgical trepanation was practiced on both males (75,6 %), females (15,7 %), from the second period of infancy (2,6 %) until the begining senility, and persons with undetermined age and gender. Considering the presumed time of the trephination and the time of death, trephinations were employed for every age, while the majority of investigations were performed on persons between 21 and 50 years of age. The majority of trephinations (84,4 %) were performed in the parietal and/or frontoparietal regions. The long time surviving rate is 63 % among the pre-Hungarians, while 84 % among the 10th century Hungarian cases. The records of trephined cases excavated in Hungary are published in Hungarian langue, in majority in the annals of museums, but no cases was published in international periodicals. Consequently, the giant great trephined material (115 cases) of Hungary is unknown in the international scientific literature, although, in their detailed study Piek et al. (1999) counted altogether 450 trephined skulls found in Europe.