Lesić Aleksandar, Bumbasirević Marko, Milosević Ivan, Zagorac Slavisa
Srp Arh Celok Lek. 2007 Sep-Oct;135(9-10):594-9.
Gerhard Küntscher, a German surgeon, was born in Zwickau in 1900. He graduated from the School of Medicine in Jena in 1926. He is renowned for the development of intramedullary fixation as a solution for fixation of fractures in the long bones. He worked in the Freiburg and Hamburg hospitals, but gained most experience during the Second World War, when he was on the Eastern front. In the period 1943-1944, he was the chief surgeon in the German military hospital in Kemio (Finland). After the war, he worked in hospitals is Schleswig and Hamburg until his retirement in 1965. He introduced the method of percutaneous intramedullary nailing in the femur fractures, as well as the interlocking nail, nail fixation of the pertrochanteric fractures and nails for intramedullary osteotomy. He published over 200 papers and 4 books. In his papers, he was often ahead of his time, and today is considered one of the founders of the concept of intramedullary fixation in fractures.
格哈德·京特舍尔是一位德国外科医生，1900年出生于茨维考。他于1926年毕业于耶拿医学院。他以开发髓内固定技术作为长骨骨折固定的解决方案而闻名。他曾在弗莱堡和汉堡的医院工作，但在第二次世界大战期间，他在东线服役时积累了最多的经验。1943年至1944年期间，他是芬兰凯米奥德国军事医院的首席外科医生。战后，他在石勒苏益格和汉堡的医院工作，直到1965年退休。他介绍了股骨骨折的经皮髓内钉固定方法、交锁髓内钉、转子间骨折的髓内钉固定以及用于髓内截骨的髓内钉。他发表了200多篇论文和4本书。在他的论文中，他常常领先于时代，如今被认为是骨折髓内固定概念的创始人之一。
