Surgical Research – A Discipline at the Interface of the Basic Sciences and the Clinic
Festschrift Dedicated to Konrad Meßmer on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Editors: A. Baethmann, Munich; G. Enders, Munich; F. Krombach, Munich; N. Plesnila, Munich

Surgical Research – General Subjects

Twenty Years of Shock Wave Research at the Institute for Surgical Research
Michael Delius

Institute for Surgical Research, University of Munich, Germany

Address of Corresponding Author

Eur Surg Res 2002;34:30-36 (DOI: 10.1159/000048884)

  Key Words

• Shock wave lithotripsy
• Tissue damage from shock waves
• Effects on tumors
• Molecule transfer by shock waves

  Abstract

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Shock waves are acoustic pressure wave pulses which last only a microsecond and reach a pressure of several hundred up to over 1,000 atmospheres (fig. 1). They are produced outside the body and are coupled on a relatively large area through the skin into the body, propagated in tissue and focused on a stone by means of ultrasound. The history of the Institute for Surgical Research of the University of Munich is tightly linked with the development of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, the fragmentation of stones in the ureteric tract and other locations. Its former director Walter Brendel set up the Institute in the sixties and directed it till his death in 1989. He started research on the clinical application of shock waves in the mid seventies.

Copyright © 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel

  Author Contacts

Michael Delius MD
Institute for Surgical Research, University of Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern
D–81366 Munich (Germany)
Tel. +49 89 7095 4408, Fax +49 89 7095 8897
E-Mail delius@icf.med.uni-muenchen.de

  Article Information

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