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Published in: World Journal of Surgery 2/2018

01-02-2018 | Presidential Address

Ο ΒΙΟΣ ΤΗ ΧΕΙΡΟΥΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΦΥΕΤΑΙ

Author: Dimitrios Linos

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 2/2018

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In 1902, at the Congress of Belgian Surgeons with guests from France, Germany, and Switzerland, it was decided to establish an International Surgical Society (ISS), “La Société International de Chirurgie” [1]. The Chair of its first International Congress, held in 1905, was the Swiss Theodore Kocher. He was the first surgeon to ever receive the Nobel Prize “for his work on the physiology, pathology, and surgery of the thyroid gland,” but not the only “endocrine surgeon” to head the society. The Swiss F. de Quervain, known for his work on thyroiditis, managed to keep the Society alive through political turmoil in the 1920s. …
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Metadata
Title
Ο ΒΙΟΣ ΤΗ ΧΕΙΡΟΥΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΦΥΕΤΑΙ
Author
Dimitrios Linos
Publication date
01-02-2018
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
World Journal of Surgery / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-017-4326-7

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