Boutonniere (medicine)

As Bouton kidney (of French . Boutonnière = buttonhole ) in which is Medicine a urethral - dam - fistula referred to, so a surgical displacement of the urethral meatus in the area between the anus and scrotum . This method is used when the urethra is missing and cannot be reconstructed, for example after a total penile amputation in cancer , and in the past it was also used for acquired or congenital urethral stenoses . The name refers to the appearance of the outer opening of the fistula, which is reminiscent of a small buttonhole.

A star stitch technique with removal of the lens nucleus , developed in the 18th century, is also known as boutonnière .

Individual evidence

^ C. .. Protzel, OW Hakenberg: Peniskarcinoma. In: The Urologist. 52, 2013, pp. 87-98, doi : 10.1007 / s00120-012-3004-5 ISSN 0340-2592 .
↑ Antoine Ferrein: Quaestio medica, quinam sint praecipue, quomodo explicentur et curentur lentes crystallinae morbi, Monspeliensi 1732. In: A. von Haller (ed.): Disputationes chirurgicae selectae. Volume V, Lausanne 1756, pp. 565-569.
^ Aloys Henning: On the eye operations on the cantor and on the archdeacon of St. Thomas in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach and Christoph Wolle. In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 227–250; here: p. 237 and 240.
↑ Aloys Henning: On the paradigm shift in cataract surgery, especially in Berlin from 1755. In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 18, 1999, pp. 271-296; here: pp. 284–286.

[DOI10.1007/s00120-012-3004-5-1] C. .. Protzel, OW Hakenberg: Peniskarcinoma. In: The Urologist. 52, 2013, pp. 87-98, doi : 10.1007 / s00120-012-3004-5 ISSN 0340-2592 .

[2] Antoine Ferrein: Quaestio medica, quinam sint praecipue, quomodo explicentur et curentur lentes crystallinae morbi, Monspeliensi 1732. In: A. von Haller (ed.): Disputationes chirurgicae selectae. Volume V, Lausanne 1756, pp. 565-569.

[3] Aloys Henning: On the eye operations on the cantor and on the archdeacon of St. Thomas in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach and Christoph Wolle. In: Würzburger medical history reports 17, 1998, pp. 227–250; here: p. 237 and 240.

[4] Aloys Henning: On the paradigm shift in cataract surgery, especially in Berlin from 1755. In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 18, 1999, pp. 271-296; here: pp. 284–286.