title: [Victor Schmieden (1874-1945) and his contribution to the development of modern surgery].
abstract: Victor Schmieden (1874-1945) was the second Professor on ordinary for surgery (1919-1945) at the Frankfurt University, which was newly established in 1914. Among his numerous publications, especially the following contributed to the development of modern surgery: in 1915 during the first world war he proposed the operative treatment (laparotomy) of abdominal shot-wounds, in 1920 he established the operative treatment (pericardectomy) of patients with a calcified pericarditis (armour heart). In 1926 he described the adenomas (polyps) of the colon as a precursor of colorectal cancer (dysplasia-carcinoma sequence) and proposed total colectomy to patients with polyposis coli.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Allgemeinchirurgie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sachs
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Encke
mesh_terms: D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century