Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen

In the seventh century AD, a native of the island of Aegina, a brilliant surgeon, Paulus Aegineta, practiced surgery in Byzantium. Able to perform a wide variety of surgical operations, he summarized his experience and gathered the available knowledge to compose his masterpiece "Medical Compend...

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Autores principales: Papapostolou, Dimitrios, Karandreas, Anastasios, Mavrommatis, Evagenlos, Laios, Konstantinos, Troupis, Theodore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159173/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32300506
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7287
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Karandreas, Anastasios
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Laios, Konstantinos
Troupis, Theodore
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description In the seventh century AD, a native of the island of Aegina, a brilliant surgeon, Paulus Aegineta, practiced surgery in Byzantium. Able to perform a wide variety of surgical operations, he summarized his experience and gathered the available knowledge to compose his masterpiece "Medical Compendium." He was credited as the first to operate on the tonsils and the lymphatic system of the lower cervical region and as one of the pioneers to cut the abdominal wall. Fond of the cauterization method, an expert in disinfection and pain palliation, he had presented supreme skills, becoming one of the most important figures in the history of medicine.
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spelling pubmed-71591732020-04-16 Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen Papapostolou, Dimitrios Karandreas, Anastasios Mavrommatis, Evagenlos Laios, Konstantinos Troupis, Theodore Cureus Miscellaneous In the seventh century AD, a native of the island of Aegina, a brilliant surgeon, Paulus Aegineta, practiced surgery in Byzantium. Able to perform a wide variety of surgical operations, he summarized his experience and gathered the available knowledge to compose his masterpiece "Medical Compendium." He was credited as the first to operate on the tonsils and the lymphatic system of the lower cervical region and as one of the pioneers to cut the abdominal wall. Fond of the cauterization method, an expert in disinfection and pain palliation, he had presented supreme skills, becoming one of the most important figures in the history of medicine. Cureus 2020-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7159173/ /pubmed/32300506 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7287 Text en Copyright © 2020, Papapostolou et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen
title Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen
title_full Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen
title_fullStr Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen
title_full_unstemmed Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen
title_short Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 AD): Operating on All, from Lymph Nodes in the Head and Neck to Visceral Organs in the Abdomen
title_sort paul of aegina (ca 625-690 ad): operating on all, from lymph nodes in the head and neck to visceral organs in the abdomen
topic Miscellaneous
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159173/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32300506
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7287
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