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Murine Ileocolic Bowel Resection with Primary Anastomosis
Published on: October 29, 2014
[Milestones in the history of intestinal anastomosis]
1Medizinhistorisches Institut, Universität Bern. urs.boschung@mhi.unibe.ch
Abstract:
Description of the most important steps in the evolution of intestinal suture technique: The simple Lembert suture and its precursors, the two-layer suture, and the adapting one-layer suture. The contributions of Ph. F. Ramdohr. Wolfenbüttel, 1727, A. Lembert, Paris, 1826, F. Wydler, Aarau, 1865, and Th. Kocher, Bern, 1878-1907, are presented in more details.
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