William Henry Battle

William Henry Battle (born February 23, 1855 in Lincoln (Lincolnshire) , † February 2, 1936 in Woking ) was an English surgeon .

Life

Battle studied at St. Thomas' Medical School, London , from which he graduated in 1877. In 1880 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) and worked at St Thomas' Hospital London. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was professor of surgery and pathology from 1889 to 1990 . He also taught at the Medical School for Women. William Henry Battle was the first to describe a laparotomy to remove an intestinal obstruction caused by post-operative adhesions . In 1895 he described a vertical abdominal incision with sideways displacement of the rectus abdominis muscle ("battle incision") and in 1901 a detailed description of the operation for the treatment of femoral hernias ("battle operation"). Battle also dealt with concussion and the resulting neuritis nervi optici . The " battle symbol " named after him is an indication of a fractured skull base . Battle was on the editorial staff of The Lancet for over 20 years .

Works

• William Henry Battle, Edred M. Corner: The Surgery of the Diseases of the Appendix Vermiformis and Their Complications . A. Constable, London 1904. ( full text )
• William Henry Battle: Clinical Lectures on the Acute Abdomen . William Wood & Co, New York 1911. ( full text )

literature

• RS Tubbs et al .: William Henry Battle and Battle's sign: mastoid ecchymosis as an indicator of basilar skull fracture. In: Journal of Neurosurgery 112, 2010, 1, ISSN  0022-3085 , pp. 186-188.