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Surgical Endoscopy
Published in: Surgical Endoscopy 2/2014

01-02-2014 | Editorial

Jànos Veres: the man behind the needle

Author: W. U. Wayand

Published in: Surgical Endoscopy | Issue 2/2014

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Excerpt

It has now been 30 years since the Hungarian physician Jànos Veres died. There is hardly an individual who has become so well known years after his death. The reason for this is the advent of minimally invasive surgery. Surgeons worldwide use his needle to create the capnoperitoneum. But who was Jànos Veres? To whom ought we pay tribute for the most frequently used access to the peritoneal and pleural cavity? …
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Veres J (1938) Neues Instrument zur Ausführung von Brust- oder Bauchpunktionen und Pneumothoraxbehandlung. Deut Med Wochenschr 64:1480–1481CrossRef
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Sandor J, Ballagi F, Nagy A, Rákóczi I (2000) A needle-puncture that helped to change the world of surgery. Homage to Jànos Veres. Surg Endosc 14:201–202
Metadata
Title
Jànos Veres: the man behind the needle
Author
W. U. Wayand
Publication date
01-02-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Surgical Endoscopy / Issue 2/2014
Print ISSN: 0930-2794
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2218
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-013-3175-1

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