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Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 2021; 25(02): 274-276
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1727094
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Robert Kienböck, Among the First Pioneers of Musculoskeletal Imaging
Franz Kainberger
1   Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Daniela Hahn
2   Josephinum – Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Abstract

Robert Kienböck (1871–1953) may be regarded as one of the first musculoskeletal radiologists who began his clinical and scientific work 2 years after the discovery of X-rays. He lent his name to Kienböck's disease, a traumatic malacia and osteonecrosis of the lunate, and to several other eponyms of diseases, devices, and parameters in radiology and radiation oncology. With his meticulous analysis of radiographic images of the highest quality, he anticipated many theories that were proposed in later decades.

Keywords

history - avascular necrosis of the lunate - Kienböck's disease


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