Vincenz Czerny
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Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916) was a Czech/Bohemian surgeon.
Czerny developed operational techniques in cancer surgery and the treatment of malignant lesions deemed inoperable
Biography
- Born November 19, 1842 in Trautenau, Böhmen, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Died October 3, 1916 in Heidelberg, Germany
Medical Eponyms
- Czerny operation (aka Cholecystopexy)
- Czerny pillar suture used in the operative treatment of congenital inguinal hernia in children
Key Medical Attributions
- 1879 – performed the first vaginal total hysterectomy
- 1880 – introduced pyelolithotomy as a treatment for nephrolithiasis
- 1881 – introduced the operation of enucleation of subperitoneal uterine fibroids by the vaginal route
Paget disease of bone
Paget defined the modern clinical entity in a paper read in 1876 and published in 1877, naming it osteitis deformans. Although Czerny had used the term Ostitis deformans in 1873 for a different localised disorder of the lower leg, Paget’s chronic skeletal disease was later widely eponymised as Paget’s disease of bone. By 1889 the eponym was already present in medical indexing.
1873 – Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916) used the term Ostitis deformans in a report Eine locale Malacie des Unterschenkels. His patient was a 22-year-old man with gradually progressive deformity of the lower leg, developing without trauma and associated with pain, local swelling, curvature and later hardening. Czerny reviewed earlier reports by Scoutetten, Solly, Mosetig and Weinlechner and concluded that existing terms such as osteohalisteresis or local malacia captured only part of the disease process.
Original
English
Da sowohl der Name Osteohalisteresis, als auch lokale Malacie bloss einen Theil des Krankheitsprozesses bezeichnet und da überhaupt der Zusammenhang desselben mit der Osteomalacie aus verschiedenen Gründen sehr zweifelhaft ist, dagegen alle Charaktere einer Ostitis mit dem Ausgange in Sklerose vorhanden sind, so möchte ich diese Fälle unter dem Namen der Ostitis deformans zusammenfassen. – Czerny 1873
Since both the name osteohalisteresis and the term local malacia designate only part of the disease process, and since its connection with osteomalacia is in any case very doubtful for various reasons, while all the characters of an osteitis ending in sclerosis are present, I should like to group these cases under the name Ostitis deformans. – Czerny 1873
Major Publications
- Czerny V. Eine locale Malacie des Unterschenkels.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift 1873; 23(39): 895-899 [osteitis deformans]
- Czerny V. Ueber die Ausrottung des Gebärmutterkrebses. Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1879; 29: 1171-1174. [Vaginal total hysterectomy]
- Czerny V. Ueber die Enukleation subperitonealer Fibrome der Gebärmutter durch das Scheidengewölbe; vaginale Myoniotonie. Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1881; 31: 501-505, 525-529.
References
Biography
Eponymous terms
- Menéndez-Bueyes LR, Soler Fernández MD. Paget’s Disease of Bone: Approach to Its Historical Origins. Reumatol Clin. 2017 Mar-Apr;13(2):66-72.
Eponym
the person behind the name
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