Timothy James Herbert
Timothy James Herbert (born July 11, 1941 in Sheffield , Great Britain ) is an Australian hand surgeon . He developed an internationally recognized classification of scaphoid fractures and, together with WE Fisher in 1977, the Herbert screw , which is still used today (as of 2019) for the treatment of a scaphoid fracture .
Career
He first studied from 1959 to 1964 at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in London , where he then continued his training as an orthopedic surgeon, which he completed in 1968. Herbert has been married to an Austrian since 1965 and has three children. From 1975 he worked at the Department of Hand Surgery at St. Luke's Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, where he also became director.
literature
- Timothy James HERBERT: Fractured Scaphoid . Quality Medical Publishing 1990, ISBN 0942219066
- SL FILAN and TJ HERBERT: Herbert screw fixation of scaphoid fractures. J. Bone Jt Surg. 78-B, 519-529, 1996
- Tanja Mara Goldbrunner; Outcome study of the surgical treatment of scapoid pseudoarthroses; Dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 2006 (description of the development and function of the Herbert screw)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ S1 guideline scaphoid fracture . In: AWMF online
- ^ Krimmer H., ea: Scaphoid fractures - diagnosis, classification and therapy . In: The trauma surgeon, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN 0177-5537 , 103/10, 2000, pp. 812-819; here online
- ^ Buck-Gramcko Dieter : Timothy James Herbert. In: A life for hand surgery, Steinkopff publishing house, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7985-1776-9 ; here online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbert, Timothy James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian hand surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sheffield , UK |