KOCHER, Emil Theodor
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Eine neue Reductionsmethode für Schulterverrenkung.Berl. klin. Wschr., 7, 101-05, 1870.Kocher was Professor of Surgery at Berne, and among the greatest surgeons of his day. He is remembered, among other things, for his method of reduction of subluxation of the shoulder-joint. Subjects: ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Fractures & Dislocations, ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Shoulder |
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Exstirpation einer Struma retroesophagea.KorrespBl. Schweiz. Aerzte, 8, 702-05, 1878.Kocher, a pupil of Billroth, was a pioneer of thyroidectomy for goitre. Before his time the operation was seldom performed. Garrison says that he performed this difficult operation 2,000 times, with a mortality rate of only 4.5 per cent. Kocher received the Nobel Prize in 1909. Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY › Thyroid , NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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Ueber Radicalheilung des Krebses.Dtsch. Z. Chir., 13, 134-66, 1880.Kocher’s operation of radical extirpation of the tongue for carcinoma. Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma, SURGERY: General |
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Ueber Kropfexstirpation und ihre Folgen.Arch. klin. Chir., 29, 254-337, 1883.Kocher coined the term “cachexia strumipriva” to describe the myxedema following total extirpation of the thyroid. His work on the subject led to a better understanding of the cause of myxedema. Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY › Thyroid |
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Eine einfache Methode zurErzielung sicherer Asepsis.CorrespBl. scbweiz. Aerzte, 18, 3-20, 1888.Kocher introduced silk sutures. Subjects: SURGERY: General |
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Zur Radicalcur der Hernien.KorrespBl. Schweiz. Aerzte, 22, 561-76, 1892.Kocher’s hernia operation. Subjects: SURGERY: General › Hernia |