Friedrich Busch
Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Busch (1844 – 1916) was a German surgeon and dentist
Biography
- Born 9 September 1844
- 1884 – Head of the newly opened Institute of Dental Medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin.
- Died 8 July 1916
Medical Eponyms
Busch-Hoffa fracture [Hoffa fracture] (1869)
Unicondylar coronal fracture of the lateral femoral condyle. Rare intra-articular distal femur injury. Axial compression to the knee with transmission of the ground reaction force through the tibial plateau to the femoral condyles.
Controversies
The Busch fracture (archaic term for Mallet finger with avulsion fracture of the proximal portion of the distal phalanx) is in fact Karl David Wilhelm Busch (1826-1881) [Busch W. Über den Abriss der Strecksehne von der Phalanx des Nagelgliedes. Centralblatt für Chirurgie. 1881; 8: 1-5]
Major Publications
- Busch F. Fall VIII. Infraction des Condyl. ext femoris. In: Mehrere Fälle seltener Knochenverletzungen. Archiv für klinische chirurgie 1869; 10: 715-716
- Busch F. Allgemeine Orthopädie, Gymnastik und Massage. 1882
- Busch F. General orthopædics, gymnastics and massage (Vol V). In: Von Ziemssen’s Handbook of general therapeutics.1886
References
- Pagel J. Busch, Friedrich. Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. 1901: 290-291
- Bartoníček J, Rammelt S. History of femoral head fracture and coronal fracture of the femoral condyles. Int Orthop. 2015; 39(6): 1245-50.