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RESULTS OF PRIMARY SUTURE

GOLDER LEWIS McWHORTER, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1937;35(6):1099-1125.

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Further progress in surgery of the biliary tract must depend on a reduction in mortality and morbidity, on a reasonable certainty of obtaining relief with a preservation of the maximum function and on a simplified technic, and must lead to earlier operation.

The first operation on the gallbladder has been credited to Fabricius,¹ who removed gallstones in 1618. Hulke² referred to a case reported about 1706 in which a stone was withdrawn from the gallbladder by a forceps. Petit³ in 1743 reported a case in which stones were removed from a gallbladder which was incised when it was mistaken for an abscess, and the patient recovered. Thudichum⁴ in 1859 proposed the removal of stones by drainage in two stages.

The first operation on the gallbladder in one stage was performed in 1867 by Bobbs⁵ when he removed many gallstones and closed the incision by primary . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago CHICAGO

Footnotes
Presented before the Chicago Surgical Society, March 6, 1936.

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