Karel Maydl
Karel Maydl (10 March 1853 – 8 August 1903) was an Austrian surgeon who was a native of Rokytnice nad Jizerou, Bohemia.
In 1876 he received his medical doctorate at
Czech University in Prague
.
Karel Maydl is remembered for the introduction of new surgical techniques, including a procedure for treatment of
rectal cancer
.
His name is associated with "
intestines forming a W.[1]
In 1897 he was the first physician to describe the disease later known as
Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome.[2]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Karel Maydl.
- ^ "Maydl's hernia". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ISBN 978-1-4471-6767-9.
- ISBN 1-85070-021-4.[page needed]
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