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Josef Rotter
German surgeon, born January 21, 1857, Gläsendorf , German Silesia (now Szklarnia, Poland); died September 29, 1924, Berlin.
Associated eponyms:
Halsted's operation II
Radical mastectomy for cancer of the breast.
Rotter's nodes
Lymph nodes occasionally found between the pectoralis minor and major muscles which often contain metastases from mammary cancer.
Biography:
Josef Rotter studied at Breslau, Halle, Kiel, and Würzburg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1881. He was subsequently assistant under Hermann Maas (1842-1886) at Würzburg until 1884, Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907) in Berlin until 1887, and from 1888 to 1890 headed a private surgical clinic in Munich. In 1890 he became chief of surgery at St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus zu Berlin.
Bibliography:
- Die operative Behandlung des Kropfes.
[von Langenbeck’s]Archiv für klinische Chirurgie, Berlin 1885.
- Die Arthropatien bei Tabiden.
[von Langenbeck’s]Archiv für klinische Chirurgie, Berlin. XXXVI.
- Die Stichverletzungen der Subclavia-Gefässe.
[Volkmann's] Sammlung klinische Vorträge, New Series, 72, Leipzig, 1893.
- Eine neue Art von Hautgangraen mit Pustelbildung.
Dermatologische Zeitschrift, Berlin, 1895.
- Festschrift zum goldenen Jubiläum des St. Hedwig-Krankenhauses. Berlin 1896.
- Über Perityphlitis. Berlin, 1896.
- Zur Topographie des Mamma-Carcinoms.
[Langenbeck's] Archiv für klinische Chirurgie, Berlin 1898.
- Die Erkrankungen des Anus und Rectum. In: Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907), Paul von Bruns (1846-1916), Jan Mikulicz-Radecki (1850-1905): Handbuch der praktischen Chirurgie. Stuttgart, 1899.
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