[Milestones in the history of intestinal anastomosis].

Abstract

Description of the most important steps in the evolution of intestinal suture technique: The simple Lembert suture and its precursors, the two-layer suture, and the adapting one-layer suture. The contributions of Ph. F. Ramdohr. Wolfenbüttel, 1727, A. Lembert, Paris, 1826, F. Wydler, Aarau, 1865, and Th. Kocher, Bern, 1878-1907, are presented in more details.