[The history of morphological research of the vascular bed of the skeletal muscles].
The present paper briefly reports on the history of vascular research with special emphasis to the contribution of G. Prochaska and W. Spalteholz in the topic of the vascular pattern in the skeletal muscle. The merit of Prochaska was to summarize the findings of earlier investigators and to perform own experiments using injection techniques to demonstrate vessels in the muscle. For a longer period his results has served as the morphological base for the physiological understanding of the muscular circulation. 100 years later W. Spalteholz was the first scientist which has elaborated a complete scheme of the vascular distribution in the muscle including the capillaries, using his special method, to make tissue translucent combined with injection techniques. His fundamental work "Die Vertheilung der Blutgefässe im Muskel" was published in 1888. In many details it is valid up to recent time because the concept of Chambers and Zweifach can not be applied to the circulation of the muscle. Additionally our report gives information of further development of vascular research in the muscle with respects to theoretical problems and practical application in the muscle surgery.
Anatomisches Institut der Medizinischen Fakultät der Karls-Universität Prag, CSSR.
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D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history*; D000818:Animals; D001317:Austria; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D005858:Germany; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000098:blood supply*
Zur Geschichte der morphologischen Erforschung des Gefässbettes der Skelettmuskulatur.