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Kurt Semm and an automatic insufflatorG S Litynski
Clinic for General Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, Germany
JSLS 2:197-200. 1998..quot; In 1967, Semm presented his invention to Melvin Cohen, an American pioneer of gynecological laparoscopy, at the meeting of the American Fertility Society, held in Washington...
Hans Frangenheim--culdoscopy vs. laparoscopy, the first book on gynecological endoscopy, and "cold light"G S Litynski
Klinikum der J W Goethe Universitat, Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin, Frankfurt Main, Germany
JSLS 1:357-61. 1997..Frangenheim strongly stimulated the rise of gynecological laparoscopy in Europe in the 1960s and later...
Erich Mühe and the rejection of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (1985): a surgeon ahead of his timeG S Litynski
Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt Main, Germany
JSLS 2:341-6. 1998..His concept, however, was ignored. In the middle of the 1980s, the surgical community was still not prepared for the era of "minimally invasive therapy." Erich Mühe was a surgeon ahead of his time...
Profiles in laparoscopy: Mouret, Dubois, and Perissat: the laparoscopic breakthrough in Europe (1987-1988)G S Litynski
Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt Main, Germany
JSLS 3:163-7. 1999..Dubois and Perissat spoke enthusiastically about their work at the meetings and were largely responsible for establishing what is today called the French technique...
