Charles McBurney (* 17 February 1845 in Roxbury, Massachusetts; "† 7 November 1913 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American surgeon, who admits particularly as a pioneer with the diagnostics and treatment of the Appendizitis ("„appendicitis "“) is.

After the medicine study in Harvard (until 1866) and acquisition of the doctor title in New York (1870) it undertook a study trip to Europe. Afterwards it was active as surgeon and a professor of this subject again in New York, where its hospital attained fast world validity.

McBurney published 1889 before the New York Surgical Society its classical report over early operational intervention with the Appendizitis. It described the place of the strongest pain in the right hypogastric region, which admits since that time as McBurney point is.

Literature

• C. McBurney: Experience with early operational interference into cases OF disease OF the vermiform appendix. New York Medical journal, 1889, 50:676 - 684. PMID 4893208

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