TY  - JOUR
A1  - Litynski, Grzegorz S.
T1  - Kurt Semm and an automatic insufflator
T2  - Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
N2  - Work on tubal insufflation marked the beginning of Kurt Semm's (b. 1927) scientific career. In the early 1960s, he directed his attention to the fact that, from a technical standpoint, tubal insufflation was similar to creating pneumoperitoneum. In the mid-1960s, Semm - himself a gynecologist - invested his time and financial resources and risked his university career to develop an automatic abdominal insufflation device. Later he tried it out in the Clinic for Internal Medicine. Since, at that time, the term “laparoscopy” had negative connotations associated with it, Semm formulated a new term “pelviscopy.” In 1967, Semm presented his invention to Melvin Cohen, an American pioneer of gynecological laparoscopy, at the meeting of the American Fertility Society, held in Washington.
Y1  - 1998
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26743
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-267439
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015284/
SN  - 1086-8089
SN  - 1938-3797
N1  - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits for noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered in any way.
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
SP  - 197
EP  - 200
PB  - Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
CY  - Miami, Fla.
ER  -