Abstract:We have read with interest the article 'Five thousand years of minimal access surgery: 3000BC to 1850: early instruments for viewing body cavities' 1 and we want to congratulate the esteemed author for the successful description of the subject. But in this article, a point has been neglected that in the subject of surgery in the Middle Ages, the authors only referred to Zahrawi and it has been suggested to the reader that during the 8th to 15th centuries AD, in the Islamic Empire and the Arabic and Persian wor… Show more
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