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Hans Frangenheim
Hans Frangenheim (18 January 1920, Köln, Germany – 22 September 2001, Konstanz, Germany) was a German gynecologist and a pioneer in gynecologic laparoscopy.
Biography.
Hans Frangenheim was the second son of Margarethe (nee Steinmetz) and Paul Frangenheim, Director of Surgery at the University of Köln. When his father died in 1930, Frangenheim was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland until 1938. Early in World War II Frangenheim did military service with the Luftwaffe. In 1942 he started his medical
few applications, mainly for purposes of diagnosis and performance of simple procedures in gynecologic applications.
The first publication on modern diagnostic laparoscopy by Raoul Palmer appeared in 1947, followed by the publication of Hans Frangenheim and Kurt Semm, who both practised hysteroscopy from the mid-1970s.
In 1972, Clarke invented, published, patented, presented, and recorded on film laparoscopic surgery, with instruments marketed by the Ven Instrument Company of Buffalo, New York.
In 1975, Tarasconi, from the Department of Ob-Gyn of the