Franz König (surgeon)

Franz König (surgeon)

Franz König (February 10, 1832 - December 12, 1910) was a German surgeon who was a native of Rotenburg an der Fulda. In 1855 he received his doctorate from the University of Marburg, and was later district wound surgeon ("Amtswundarzt") in Hanau. Afterwards he was a professor of surgery at the Universities of Rostock and Göttingen, and eventually the Charité Berlin.

König is largely remembered for his work in bone and joint surgery. He was the first physician to identify the relationship between hemophilia and hemophilic arthropathy, as well as the first surgeon to perform a successful internal fixation of proximal femur fractures. Reportedly, he was also the first to use the term "osteochondritis dissecans".

Asoociated eponym:
* "König's syndrome": Various abdominal symptoms caused by an incomplete obstruction of the small intestine

References

* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1735.html Who Named It?; Franz König]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15021169&dopt=Abstract National Library of Medicine; Proximal Femur Fractures.]


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