Ton That Tung

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Ton That Tung during an operation in Leipzig

Ton That Tung ( Vietnamese Tôn Thất Tùng , born May 10, 1912 in Thanh Hóa , † May 7, 1982 in Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese liver surgeon. He was a professor at Hanoi Medical School, Deputy Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Director of Phu Doan Hospital in Hanoi. He became known for his parenchymal transection technique.

Education and career

Ton That Tung was born in Thanh Hoa as a member of a noble family and attended the Lycée du Protectorat in Hanoi from 1931 and the local medical college from 1935. Until then, the rule was that local students could only take exams for the outpatient area, but not for the inpatient area. He campaigned with the French colonial government that there should also be an approval procedure for inpatient treatment for locals and became the first Vietnamese student to successfully go through this. He worked intensively with the French surgeons Jacques Meyer May and Pierre Huard. He wrote his dissertation on the subject of liver anatomy. For this he received a silver medal from the University of Paris , with which the Hanoi Medical School was connected. After the Second World War he was involved in the medical treatment of Ho Chi Minh and was a member of the Viet Minh . He was a professor at Hanoi University until his death from a heart attack in 1982.

Significance for surgery

In his doctoral thesis "La Vascularisation Veineuse du Foie et ses Applications aux Résections et Lobectomies Hépatiques" , Ton That Tung described the systematic results from the anatomical examinations of at least 200 human livers, which he had personally carried out. During these examinations he used a technique that had never been described before, whereby he separated the vascular structures and the parenchyma with fine forceps. In 1939 he performed a left-sided lobectomy, the second published anatomical liver resection since William Keen. With his anatomical knowledge he performed a large number of liver operations and published his techniques for the first time in 1963. The pillars of his surgical strategy were hypothermia of the patient, interruption of the blood flow and occlusion of the relevant vessels within the liver parenchyma. In particular, the representation of vessels in the parenchyma was innovative and is associated with his name in the literature. His technique of parenchyma transection, which he carried out by applying pressure between thumb and forefinger, was also groundbreaking. This technique became known as "Digitoklasie" (French. "Digitoclasie") or in English "Finger fracture technique".

Honors

Ton That Tung received several scholarships, including from the GDR and the French Académie nationale de Chirurgie. A street in Hanoi has been named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helling, T. and Azoulay, D., 2014. Ton That Tungʼs Livers. Annals of Surgery, 259 (6), pp. 1245-1252.
  2. ↑ Interview with Ton That Tung 1981 , accessed April 25, 2020
  3. ^ Ton That Tung: La Vascularisation Veineuse du Foie et ses Applications aux Résections et Lobectomies Hépatique. Hanoi, Vietnam, G. Taupin & Cie, 1939
  4. ↑ Thomas S. Helling and Daniel Azoulay: Ton That Tung's Livers, in: Annals of Surgery, 2014 (259), pp. 1245-1252
  5. ^ Ton That Tung and Nguyen Duong Quang: A new technique for operating on the liver, in: The Lancet, 1963 (1), pp. 192-193.
  6. ↑ Info on hcmc.com , accessed April 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Ton That Tung
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tôn Thất Tùng
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese liver surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Thanh Hao
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1982
Place of death Hanoi