title: Surgeons and their tools: a history of surgical instruments and their innovators--part I: place the scissors on the Mayo stand.
abstract: This is the first of five articles reviewing the historical origins of some of the more commonly used surgical instruments and takes "time out" to remind current surgeons about the surgical pioneers on whose shoulders they now stand and whose inventions they now use.
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: El-Sedfy
authors.forename: Ronald S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Chamberlain
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States