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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;74:1288-1290
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Our surgical heritage

Thoracoscopy before Jacobaeus

Beatrix Hoksch, MD*a, Hanno Birken-Bertsch, MAb, Joachim M. Müller, MD, FACSa

a Department of Surgery Charité, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
b Institute of Philosophy, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Berlin, Germany

* Address reprint requests to Dr Hoksch, Department of Surgery Charité, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Schumannstr. 20/21, 10117 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: hoksch{at}t-online.de

In 1910 Jacobaeus described a procedure to which he referred as "Thorakoskopie." As a consequence, he is credited with having been the first to undertake an endoscopic exploration of the thorax. However, a published report by Gordon demonstrates that thoracoscopy was performed about 50 years earlier. Additionally in French, at least, the term "thoracoscopie" was well known long before Jacobaeus, although perhaps with a different meaning.




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