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question on surgical films


  • Date:   Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:45:53 -0600
  • To:  sthc-l@lists.ucla.edu
  • From:   Lesley W. Brunet   < lwbrunet AT mdanderson.org >
  • Subject:   question on surgical films
  • Message-ID:   OF9AADAE8F.05569F00-ON862573D9.005F8303-862573D9.006195B2@mdacc.tmc.edu

One place to look is WorldCat.  I'll try and paste in the info below.  
Is this his film?    If it's not visible, go to worldcat and do 
an advanced search for "transurethral prostatectomy" with the format 
"videocassette. "  I also did a search for "endoscopic surgery," 
also specifying videocassette, from 1960 to 1980.   

You might try searching in PubMed or even google, for the 
"first endoscopic surgery."   

A google search turned up this result: 
 
1957 - Physician Basil Hirschowitz (S. Africa/USA) performs 
the first endoscopic surgery. The fiber optic endoscope, modified 
as a gastroscope, had been developed by Hirschowitz along 
with physicists Lawrence Curtiss and C. Wilbur Peters. 
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/1934-1966.html                           	 


Maybe your doc meant the first endoscopic prostate surgery.....   

Instructional film or videos were not only produced by medical 
professional associations; academic health centers, cancer centers, 
medical schools, etc., also filmed or videotaped procedures, grand 
rounds, etc., and would sell these.   

Good luck! 

Lesley 

Lesley W. Brunet, CA
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas 77030-4009
713-792-8220


Transurethral prostatectomy : a teaching film 
by Donald R Krawitt;  Herbert Brendler;  Eaton Laboratories. 
 
Type: 	Visual Material 	   
Language: 	English 	   
Publisher: 	Norwich, N.Y. : Eaton Laboratories, [1966] 	   
Editions: 	2 Editions 	   
OCLC: 	4872847	 


http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4872847&referer=brief_results 

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