Paul Kraske

Paul Kraske (2 June 1851, Berg, Province of Silesia 15 June 1930, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German surgeon.

Paul Kraske as a student

He studied medicine at the universities of Halle and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate at Halle in 1874. While a student, he served as a volunteer soldier in a fusilier regiment during the Franco-Prussian War. After graduation, he spent several years as an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at the surgical clinic in Halle, then from 1883 to 1919 was a professor and head of the surgical clinic at the University of Freiburg.[1][2]

He held a particular interest in colorectal cancer, and is remembered for introducing a transsacral approach for the extirpation of cancers of the rectum ("Kraske's operation").[3]

Selected works

  • Beiträge zur Lehre von dem Einflusse der Nerven auf die Ernährung der Gewebe, 1874 Study on the influence of nerves involving the nutrition of tissues.
  • Experimentelle Untersuchungen ueber die Regeneration der quergestreiften Muskeln, 1878 Experimental studies on the regeneration of striated muscles.
  • Die sacrale Methode der Exstirpation von Mastdarmkrebsen und die Resectio recti, 1887 The sacral method for extirpation of rectal cancers and resection of the rectum.[1][3]
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References

  1. Paul Kraske Catalogus Professorum Halensis
  2. Paul Kraske at Who Named It
  3. Kraske's operation Who Named It
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