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Laparoscopy Between the World Wars: The Barriers to Trans-Atlantic Exchange: Spotlighting Heinz Kalk and John C. Ruddock

This profile of laparoscopic pioneers between the world wars “spotlights” Heinz Kalk, a German surgeon, and John C. Ruddock, an American internist. Social, political and economic upheavals characterized the decades between World War I and World War II and, along with geographic and communication res...

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Autor principal: Litynski, Grzegorz S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9876671
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Sumario:This profile of laparoscopic pioneers between the world wars “spotlights” Heinz Kalk, a German surgeon, and John C. Ruddock, an American internist. Social, political and economic upheavals characterized the decades between World War I and World War II and, along with geographic and communication restraints, permitted the concept of laparoscopy to develop differently in separate settings.