KANAVEL, Allen Buchner (1874 – 1938)
1874 – 1938
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Chambers · History of Medicine and Surgery, and Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, 1922, page 618 · Public domain
1905 CE
#14147
An anatomical, experimental, and clinical study of acute phlegmons of the hand.
"Kanavel produced the classic paper on infection in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1905. In that paper, he described the anatomy and clinical study of acute infections of the hand. This clearly changed the cour…
1912 CE
#4386.01
Infections of the hand: A guide to the surgical treatment of acute and chronic suppurative processes in the fingers, hand, and forearm.
The first comprehensive treatise on hand surgery, and the classic work on tendon and bursal hand spaces relevant to management of hand infections. Kanavel developed the method of forcible injection of radio-opaque mat…