Bernhard Bardenheuer (July 12, 1839,
Lamersdorf
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– August 13, 1913) was a German
surgeon
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.
In 1864 he received his doctorate from
Berlin, where he studied under
Bernhard von Langenbeck (1810-1887). In 1865 he began work as an assistant to
Karl Busch (1826-1881) at the surgical clinic at the
University of Bonn, afterwards relocating to
Heidelberg, where he worked under
ophthalmologist
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An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Followin ...
Otto Becker (1828-1893) and surgeon
Gustav Simon (1824-1876). During the
Franco-Prussian War he served in a sick bay at a garrison in
Heidelberg.
From 1872 he was a hospital surgeon in
Köln
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, where in 1875 he introduced Listerian
antisepsis. In 1884 he received the title of professor, even though he was not a member on any university's academic staff.
Bardenheuer specialized in
genitourinary surgery, and in 1887 performed the first complete
cystectomy. This operation involved a patient who was suffering from an advanced
bladder tumour that affected both
ureters. The patient died two weeks after the surgery from
uremia and
hydronephrosis — nevertheless, Bardenheuer was able to prove the technical workability of the surgery. In 1889 Austrian gynecologist
Karl Pawlik
Karl Pawlik (12 March 1849, Klattau – 7 September 1914, Prague) was an Austro-Hungarian obstetrician and gynecologist.
He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and surgery at Vienna General Hospital as a pupil of Theodor Billroth. H ...
performed a successful cystectomy on a patient suffering from
papillomatosis of the bladder.
In 1909 he performed an autogenous
bone graft of the
mandible, a procedure that involved replacement of a
mandibular condyle with a patient's 4th
metatarsal. The "
Bardenheuer incision" is named after him, which is a surgical incision used for operative treatment of
mastitis. In German medical literature it is referred to as ''Bardenheuer-Schnitt'' (Bardenheuer cut) or ''Bardenheuer-Bogenschnitt'' (Bardenheuer arc cut).
Medizin-lexicon
Selected publications
* ''Der extraperitoneale Explorativschnitt. Die differentielle Diagnostik der chirurgischen Erkrankungen und Neubildungen des Abdomens'', 1887
* ''Die permanente Extensionsbehandlung : die subcutanen und complicirten Fracturen und Lyxationen der Extremitäten und ihre Folgen'', 1889; (The permanent extension treatment: subcutaneous and compound fractures of the extremities and luxation
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s and their consequences).
* ''Die allgemeine Lehre von den Frakturen und Luxationen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Extensionsverfahren'' (1907); (The general theory of fractures and dislocations, with special consideration given to the extension process).
* ''Die Technik der Extensionsverbände bei der Behandlung der Frakturen und Luxationen der Extremitäten'' (published with Rudolf Graessner (1867-1927); (The technique of extension associations in the treatment of fractures and dislocations of the extremities), translated into French and English- 5th edition, 1918)
References
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1839 births
1913 deaths
People from Düren (district)
People from the Rhine Province
German surgeons