Erschienen in:
07.11.2017 | Presidential Address
Ο ΒΙΟΣ ΤΗ ΧΕΙΡΟΥΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΦΥΕΤΑΙ
verfasst von:
Dimitrios Linos
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 2/2018
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In 1902, at the Congress of Belgian Surgeons with guests from France, Germany, and Switzerland, it was decided to establish an International Surgical Society (ISS), “La Société International de Chirurgie” [
1]. The Chair of its first International Congress, held in 1905, was the Swiss Theodore Kocher. He was the first surgeon to ever receive the Nobel Prize “for his work on the physiology, pathology, and surgery of the thyroid gland,” but not the only “endocrine surgeon” to head the society. The Swiss F. de Quervain, known for his work on thyroiditis, managed to keep the Society alive through political turmoil in the 1920s. …