Kurt Semm and an automatic insufflator
- 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.
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| Author: | Grzegorz S. Litynski |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-267439 |
| URL: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015284/ |
| ISSN: | 1086-8089 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3797 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9876740 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons |
| Publisher: | Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons |
| Place of publication: | Miami, Fla. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 1998 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1998 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2012/10/10 |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| First Page: | 197 |
| Last Page: | 200 |
| Note: | 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. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 358293561 |
| Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |
