ABBE, Robert (1851 – 1928)
1851 – 1928
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1889 CE
#4860.1
A contribution to the surgery of the spine.
Posterior rhizotomy.
1892 CE
#3501
Intestinal anastomosis and suturing.
Abbe, a New York surgeon, introduced catgut rings for intestinal suturing. See also Med. News (Phila.), 1889, 54, 589-92.
1898 CE
#5755.2
A new plastic operation for the relief of deformity due to double harelip.
Abbe’s lip-switch flap, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip. This is also known eponymically as the Abbe–Estlander operation, crediting Jako…