| Autor: |
Jochen Fischer, Neville W. Thompson, John W. K. Harrison |
| Rok vydání: |
2013 |
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| Zdroj: |
Classic Papers in Orthopaedics ISBN: 9781447154501 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4471-5451-8_83 |
| Popis: |
The modern practice of hand surgery was pioneered by Dr Sterling Bunnell in San Francisco, who had a keen interest in surgery of the hand. He wrote a seminal article on tendon repair in 1918. He was asked to improve the management of hand trauma patients in the Second World War by US Army Surgeon General Norman Kirk who recognized the need for specialist and coordinated care to treat the various extremity injuries seen in combat. He set up a series of hand centers at Army hospitals across the US and educated surgeons. He published ‘Surgery of the Hand’ in 1944, which was the authoritative text for 30 years, and was instrumental in the formation of the American Society for the Surgery of the Hand in 1946. Surgeons such as Kanavel treating infections, Kleinert treating tendon injuries, Buck-Gramcko and others on congenital abnormalities and Gillies on skin flap coverage made further advances in this area. More recently plastic hand surgeons have made advances in microvascular techniques and in the understanding of nerve healing to allow procedures such as digital replantation to occur. |
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OpenAIRE |
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