Any one interested in pancreatic surgery knows that it was the German surgeon in Berlin Walter Kausch who performed the first successful pancreatic resection in 1910 reported in1912. Drs Blumgart and Whipple himself mentioned him in their books of pancreatic surgery. In continental Europe it’s named as Kausch & Whipple procedure. Just as after second WW Americans have excelled in research & technology, they seems to have taken over the credit for several Firsts.
Any one interested in pancreatic surgery knows that it was the German surgeon in Berlin Walter Kausch who performed the first successful pancreatic resection in 1910 reported in1912. Drs Blumgart and Whipple himself mentioned him in their books of pancreatic surgery. In continental Europe it’s named as Kausch & Whipple procedure. Just as after second WW Americans have excelled in research & technology, they seems to have taken over the credit for several Firsts.
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