Max Wilms
Karl Wilhelm Wilms Maximillian ( born November 5, 1867 in Geilenkirchen - Hünshoven, † May 14 1918 in Heidelberg ) was a German physician and surgeon.
Life
Max Wilms was born on 5 November 1867. By the will of his father he was originally supposed to study law. However, he was more interested in medicine, so that he broke the law school for a semester and then studied medicine in Munich, Marburg, Berlin and Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1890 in Bonn with a dissertation on esophageal resection. First, he conducted research in the field of pathological anatomy after pouring in and published a sensational book on mixed tumors. Wilms designed in casting a simple mercury manometer to measure pressure in the spinal canal, the forerunner of today's intracranial pressure probe. In 1899 he completed his habilitation on " Ileus from a surgical point of view ." From 1899 researched Wilms in Leipzig, where he became associate professor in 1904. In 1907 he was called as professor to Basel. In 1910 he became proprietor of Surgery Chair at the University Hospital of Heidelberg, where he remained until 1918. On May 14, 1918 Wilms died of diphtheria, with whom he had been infected in the treatment of French prisoners of war.
Work focus
Wilms ' clinical- scientific efforts have focused in diagnostic radiology and radiation treatment of tumors and tuberculosis. For treatment of tuberculosis, he led the lung compression by a Rippenteilresektion. Wilms co-authored with Louis Wullstein the textbook of surgery, which reached seven editions and was translated into six languages.
Important publications
- The mixed tumors. Leipzig, 1899
- Textbook of Surgery. Co- author Ludwig Wullstein, Jena, 1908-1909
After Wilms named medical terms
- Wilms tumor, also called nephroblastoma: a malignant mixed tumor of childhood kidney
- Wilms' head bumps: are pins on the inner wall of teratomas in which various organ tissues