Auto-appendicectomy
Auto-appendicectomy: three landmark self-appendectomy cases—Kane (1921), McLaren (1944), Rogozov (1961)—and what they reveal about surgery in extremis.
Tag Auto-appendicectomy
Leonid Rogozov
Leonid Rogozov (1934–2000): Soviet surgeon who performed a self-appendicectomy in Antarctica (1961) when evacuation was impossible—an iconic feat of austere medicine.
Evan O’Neill Kane
Evan O’Neill Kane (1864–1932), American country surgeon. Railway accident specialist and medical inventor, famed for his 1921 auto-appendicectomy.