Donald Church Balfour (1882-1963) and The Balfour Self-Retaining Abdominal Retractor
David V Feliciano1,2, Joseph J DuBose3
1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
The American Surgeon
|September 16, 2022
Abstract:
Donald Church Balfour, MD (1882-1963), a legendary general surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, first described the Balfour self-retaining abdominal retractor in 1912. The retractor remains in use in 2022, 110 years after its development.

