Meals Clifton G, Meals Roy A
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
J Hand Surg Am. 2007 Sep;32(7):942-53. doi: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2007.05.007.
Hand surgery emerged as a specialty after World War II, and early hand surgeons borrowed tools from established fields of the time. These tools remain in common use today, and many are identified by the names of the men who created them. Because these men did not specialize in surgery of the hand, their history remains obscure to modern surgeons who do. We have investigated the history of eponymous instruments developed before 1945 and used widely today in American hand surgery. Reflection on these eponymous instruments reveals the rich and diverse history of hand surgery.
手外科作为一个专业领域在第二次世界大战后兴起，早期的手外科医生借鉴了当时已成熟领域的工具。这些工具至今仍在广泛使用，许多工具以其发明者的名字命名。由于这些人并非专门从事手部手术，他们的历史对于如今从事手部手术的外科医生来说仍然鲜为人知。我们研究了1945年以前开发且如今在美国手外科广泛使用的以人名命名的器械的历史。对这些以人名命名的器械的思考揭示了手外科丰富多样的历史。
