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Gerasimos B. Fokas

Gerasimos Fokas (Γεράσιμος Φωκάς, Gerasim B. Phocas, was born. August 7, 1861 in Argostoli, died. 1937 in Cephalonia) - Greek physician, surgeon.

Fokas studied medicine in Paris, received his doctorate in 1885 and practiced as a surgeon in a hospital in Lille, from 1889 to 1902 he was associate professor (aggregates) with permission to teach. From 1902 he was professor of clinical surgery in Athens [1]. He died in 1937.

He is credited with one of the first descriptions of Cooper disease (polycystic mammary gland), which was reflected in the strewn eponimie Tillaux-Phokas disease [2].

Selected works

Gerasimos B. Fokas

     Lecons de chirurgie orthopédique. Paris, 1895.
     Thérapeutique chirurgicale et chirurgie orthopédique. Paris 1901
         Second edition, with J. Barozzim, 1912.

footnotes

     ↑ Fischer I: Biographisches Lexikon der Ärzte der letzten hervorragenden funfzig Jahre. T. 1 Muenchen-Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, p. 1210th
     ↑ Gerasim Phocas in the database B. Who Named It (English)

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