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VINCENT L. REES, M.D.; FREDERICK A. COLLER, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1943;47(2):136-146.

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The transverse abdominal incision has been used nearly one hundred years. Baudelocque¹ used it prior to 1847 for cesarean sections, but it was Pfannenstiel,² in 1900, who popularized its use in pelvic operations. Maylard³ (1899), of Glasgow, first used a transverse incision in the upper part of the abdomen. In making this incision, he sectioned all layers of the abdominal wall in a transverse plane. An intra-abdominal hemorrhage that occurred after the closure of a median vertical incision led him to employ a transverse incision for the second laparotomy. He subsequently observed that the transverse section healed more quickly and more firmly than the median vertical one, in which a hernia developed.

Boeckmann,⁴ of St. Paul, unaware of Maylard's observations, first employed the transverse incision in all types of abdominal operations in 1906. Sprengel⁵ introduced it to the Continental surgeons in 1910 and, in conjunction . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ANN ARBOR, MICH.

From the Department of Surgery, University of Michigan.

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