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Killian-Freer operation (Gustav Killian)
Associated persons:
Otto Tiger Freer
Gustav Killian
Description:
Submucous resection of the nasal septum, including the septal cartilage, vomer, and perpendicular plate of the ethmoid.
Bibliography:
- Ephraim Fletcher Ingals (1848-1918):
Deflection of the septum narium.
Transactions of the American Laryngological Association, St. Louis, 1882, 4: 61-69.
Ingals devised the operation of partial excision of the septum for the correction of septum deflection.
- Otto Tiger Freer:
The correlation of deflections of the nasal septum with a minimum of traumatism.
Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1902, 38: 636-642.
Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1903, 41: 1391-1398.
Freer's is an improvement of Ingal's operation.
- G. Killian:
Die Killian'sche Radicaloperation chronischer Stirnhöhleneiterungen.
Archiv für Laryngologie und Rhinologie, Berlin, 1903, 13: 28-88.
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