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- Title
PEDIATRIC SURGERY IN ROMANIA - A BRIEF HISTORY.
- Authors
Boia, Eugen Sorin; Dumitru, Ionut Adrian
- Abstract
First hospital dedicated to children in Romania was founded in Bucharest in 1858 - Grigore Alexandrescu Children's Hospital and had two departments, Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, although pediatric surgery as a speciality did not existed for another nearly 20 years. Operations were performed by general surgeons. It was the first in the Balkan region. In Romania, in 1874, the Speciality of Pediatric Surgery and Orthopaedics appears by separation form General Surgery led by Professor Grigore Romniceanu. The History of Pediatric Surgery in the world is well documented especially in France where first developed. In Romania there is sparse information about the history of pediatric surgery and is concentrated more on specific personalities then the speciality itself. A thorough research and honest narration of information needs to be conducted to gather all this information on a systematic exposure as we consider the history plays an important role in the evolution of an entity.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; PEDIATRIC surgery; CHILDREN'S hospitals; HISTORY of surgery
- Publication
Jurnalul Pediatrului, 2018, Vol 21, Issue 83-84, p62
- ISSN
2360-4557
- Publication type
Article