Stacke's operation

Related people

Radical mastoidectomy, an advancement on Schwartze's procedure.

Description

Stacke introduced the operation of excision of the ossicles. Radical mastoidectomy, an advancement on Schwartze's procedure.

See also Schwartze's operation, under Hermann Hugo Rudolf Schwartze, German physician, 1837-1919.

Bibliography

  • Indicationen betreffend de Excision von Hammer und Amboss.
    Lecture at the International Congress in Berlin 1890.
    Verhandlungen des X. international medicinischen Congress, Berlin, 1890, 4, xi Abteilung: 43-43.
  • Die operative Freilegung der Mittelohrräume nach Ablösung der Ohrmuschel als Radikaloperation zur Heilung veralteter chronischer Mittelohreiterungen.
    Tübingen, 1897.

What is an eponym?

An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.

What is Whonamedit?

Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.

Disclaimer:

Whonamedit? does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.