Themistocles Gluck

Themistocles Gluck

Themistocles Gluck
Born 30 November 1853
Iaşi, Moldavia
Died 25 April 1942(1942-04-25) (aged 88)
Berlin
Citizenship Romania, Germany
Nationality German
Fields medicine
Known for endoprostheses

Themistocles Gluck (30 November 1853 in Iaşi, Moldavia; 25 April 1942 in Berlin) was a German physician and surgeon. He first invented endoprostheses from ivory in 1890 at Berlin when he performed the first documented total wrist Arthroplasty.[1]

References

  1. Ritt, M J P F; Stuart P R, Naggar L, Beckenbaugh R D. (12 1994). "The Early History of Arthroplasty of the Wrist From amputation to total wrist implant" (in English). JOURNAL OF HAND SURGERY-BRITISH AND EUROPEAN VOLUME (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone) 19B (6): 778 - 782. ISSN 0266-7681. PMID 7706886. Retrieved 08/10/2012


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