History

quote from "Operative Pediatric Surgery" by Davenport, Mark; Geiger, James - "The thyroglossal duct was first described in 1723 by Vater, who called it the “lingual duct.” It was later referred to as the “canal of His” following his descriptions in 1855 and 1891. Walter Ellis Sistrunk (1880–1933, American surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, MN) described the basis for the current operation, removing not only the cyst but also the antecedent pathway of thyroid descent to the back of tongue and middle of the hyoid bone." Abraham Vater (1684–1751) Wilhelm His Sr. (1831–1904) Walter Ellis Sistrunk (1880-1933)

quote from "Operative Pediatric Surgery" by Davenport, Mark; Geiger, James - "The branchial (external) and pharyngeal (internal) arches are structures which recapitulate our ontogeny with perhaps four or five being identifiable. In fish and most amphibians these become functional gill slits. The word itself comes from the Greek word for gills (βράγχια). Ascherson in 1832 was the first to suggest that the lateral cervical cysts he observed derived from such embryological precursors, using the term branchial cysts." In 1832, German physician Ferdinand Mauritz Ascherson coined the term "branchial cyst" and proposed the classic branchial theory, which suggests that lateral ne…

quote from "Pediatric Surgery (Springer Surgery Atlas)" by Prem Puri, Michael E. Höllwarth - "Since its development in 1989, the ACE procedure has become widely accepted as a valuable addition to the therapeutic regimens available for treating intractable faecal incontinence associated with conditions such as myelomeningocele and anorectal malformations. Thousands of patients around the world have undergone ACE procedures with success rates in excess of 80% reported. The original procedure described disconnecting the appendix from the caecum, amputating its tip, reversing it, and reimplanting it into a submucosal tunnel on the anterior wall of the caecum to produce a cont…

quote from "Pediatric Surgery (Springer Surgery Atlas)" by Prem Puri, Michael E. Höllwarth - "Before Hugh Hampton Young performed the first recorded successful primary closure of a female exstrophy patient in 1942, bladder exstrophy was primarily treated by covering the defect with skin flaps. Modern exstrophy closure, based on the pioneering work of Jeffs et al. and Cendron, has been significantly modified in the past decade and is performed in many major centres worldwide. Depending on the surgeon’s experience, some centres perform the type of repairs described by Grady and Mitchell or Kelly. Regardless of the method of repair, the primary principles in surgical managem…

Quote from "Pediatric Surgery (Springer Surgery Atlas)" by Prem Puri, Michael E. Höllwarth - "Nonsurgical reduction has a longstanding history; it was first described by McDermott in 1994. In principle, an enema pushes back the intussuscepted bowel. The progress of the reduction can be monitored by fluoroscopy or ultrasound. As contrast media, air or water-soluble iodine solutions can be used for fluoroscopy, and physiologic saline, for ultrasound. A success rate of up to 95% has been reported for nonsurgical reduction, so this procedure should be considered as a first-line treatment."

Quote from "Pediatric Surgery (Springer Surgery Atlas)" by Prem Puri, Michael E. Höllwarth - "The term “short bowel” was defined by Rickham in 1967 as a small intestinal remnant of 75 cm or less in the newborn, which equals 30% of normal small bowel length in that age group. A more functional description, preferred by most authors, defines a “short bowel syndrome” (SBS) as a state of significant maldigestion and malabsorption due to an extensive loss of functional absorptive intestinal surface area."

“The Hungarian J. Veress developed the spring-loaded needle for performance of therapeutic pneumothorax to treat pulmonary tuberculosis in 1938; he then applied this technique to cases of pneumoperitoneum” — Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children by Klaas N.M.A. Bax, K.E. Georgeson, et al.

Harald Hirschsprung;1888 [My first specimen] is a colon, but a colon of such a size that it will no doubt surprise you to learn that it comes from a child only 11 months old when it died.... Only [the] rectum was not dilated, nor indeed subject to any obstruction. ahrbuecher für Kinderheilkunde

Treatment of Anorectal malformation according to Talmud, 2000 years ago.

Quote from "ESPES Manual of Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery" by Ciro Esposito, François Becmeur, Henri Steyaert, Philipp Szavay - "The first ever cholecystectomy on record was performed on July 15, 1882, by Carl Johann August Langenbuch (1846–1901) at Lazarus Krankenhaus in Berlin [1]. Few years earlier, on July 15, 1867, John Stough Bobbs of Indianapolis had performed a cholecystostomy on a 30-year-old woman with ovarian cancer [2]. It was over 100 years later, in Germany again, that Erich Mühe of Boblingen performed the first laparoscopic (Fig. 37.1) cholecystectomy [3]. This was a turning point for minimal access approach in general surgery. Another major advan…