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Alfred Schanz
German orthopaedist, born November 22, 1868, Ölsnitz in V.; died November 17, 1931.
Associated eponyms:
Albert's disease
Painful inflammation of the bursae located between the os calcis and the Achilles tendon with difficulty in walking.
Schanz' cotton wool dressing
Circular cotton wool dressing on the neck, used in Caput obstipum, osteochondrosis of the cervical spine etc.
Schanz' disease
Traumatic inflammation of the Achilles tendon.
Schanz' syndrome II
A syndrome comprising the combined features of the lateral sclerosis and the anterior cornual syndromes.
Biography:
After receiving his doctorate in 1892, Alfred Schanz went to Berlin for further education under Friedrich Fehleisen (born 1854), then to Albert Hoffa (1859-1907) in Würzburg, subsequently settling as an orthopaedist. Schans introduced the term functional insufficiency.
Bibliography:
- Über die Bedeutung von Massage und Heilgymnastik in der Skoliosetherapie.
[Volkmann’s] Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1901.
- Die statischen Belastungsdeformitäten der Wirbelsäule.
Stuttgart, 1905.
- Deformitäten im Bereiche des Kniegelenks.
In: Handbuch der orthopädischen Chirurgie, volume 2, Jena, 1907.
- Handbuch der orthopädischen Technik.
Jena, 1907. 2nd volume, 1923.
- Kranke Füsse, gesunde Stiefel. Stuttgart, 1916.
- Lehre von den statischen Insuffizienserkrankungen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Insufficientia vertebrae.
Stuttgart, 1916.
- Praktische Orthopädie. Berlin, 1918.
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