Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the world
Surgery is an institution that has existed for thousands of years as a means of diagnosing, preventing or curing ailments. The commonplace assumption that a surgical procedure is performed by one party on another is not always true. There have been many documented cases of persons operating on thems...
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| author | Chidinma Nwaogbe Emily A. Simonds Anthony V. D'Antoni R. Shane Tubbs |
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| description | Surgery is an institution that has existed for thousands of years as a means of diagnosing, preventing or curing ailments. The commonplace assumption that a surgical procedure is performed by one party on another is not always true. There have been many documented cases of persons operating on themselves. Therefore, several cases of surgeons operating on themselves for various reasons are discussed in this article from a historical sense. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8b83f7f131644ce892598b8ecb23eca52022-12-22T00:02:02ZengElsevierTranslational Research in Anatomy2214-854X2018-03-0110C1310.1016/j.tria.2017.11.001Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the worldChidinma Nwaogbe0Emily A. Simonds1Anthony V. D'Antoni2R. Shane Tubbs3CUNY School of Medicine, New York, NY 10031, USASeattle Science Foundation, Seattle, WA 98122, USACUNY School of Medicine, New York, NY 10031, USASeattle Science Foundation, Seattle, WA 98122, USASurgery is an institution that has existed for thousands of years as a means of diagnosing, preventing or curing ailments. The commonplace assumption that a surgical procedure is performed by one party on another is not always true. There have been many documented cases of persons operating on themselves. Therefore, several cases of surgeons operating on themselves for various reasons are discussed in this article from a historical sense.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214854X17300237Self-surgerySurgeryCardiac catheterizationAppendicitisKidney stonesAnesthesia |
| spellingShingle | Chidinma Nwaogbe Emily A. Simonds Anthony V. D'Antoni R. Shane Tubbs Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the world Translational Research in Anatomy Self-surgery Surgery Cardiac catheterization Appendicitis Kidney stones Anesthesia |
| title | Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the world |
| title_full | Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the world |
| title_fullStr | Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the world |
| title_full_unstemmed | Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the world |
| title_short | Surgeons performing self-surgery: A review from around the world |
| title_sort | surgeons performing self surgery a review from around the world |
| topic | Self-surgery Surgery Cardiac catheterization Appendicitis Kidney stones Anesthesia |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214854X17300237 |
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