Surgical approaches in bone surgery have undergone a long evolution over more than 130 years. While a number of publications have been devoted to the history of internal fixation, surgical approaches have remained neglected from this perspective. The development of approaches in musculoskeletal surgery is inextricably linked to four personalities. Theodor Kocher, in 1892, pointed out that descriptions of surgical approaches must be an essential part of surgical textbooks of operative techniques; James Edwin Thompson, in 1918, formulated the basic requirements for the surgical approaches to the skeleton of limbs; Arnold Kirkpatrick Henry published the first textbook of surgical approaches in 1927 and presented the concept of internervous planes in 1945; in the same year, Toufick Nicola created the first comprehensive atlas of surgical approaches to bones and joints of limbs, the pelvis and spine.

• Klíčová slova
• History of internal fixation, History of orthopaedics, Surgical approaches,
• MeSH
• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• dějiny 21. století MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• ortopedické výkony * dějiny   metody   MeSH
• ortopedie * dějiny   MeSH
• Check Tag
• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• dějiny 21. století MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH

INTRODUCTION: The Hueter-Volkmann law (HVL) of the response of growth plate to compression load is a basic concept in orthopaedics. However, little is known about the origin of HVL and its history. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A literature search was performed in original publications and historical sources. RESULTS: An analysis of all Volkmann´s and Hueter´s texts has shown that none of their publications was based on experiments, but on the data in the literature and their own clinical observations. They did not deal at all with the effect of pressure on the growth plate and mentioned this structure only marginally. The authors coined the opinion that increased pressure retards and decreased pressure accelerates bone growth. Julius Wolff criticized the HVL and concentrated all his arguments in the book "The law of bone remodeling". According to him, increased pressure leads to bone formation, decreased pressure to its resorption. The Wolff-Volkmann dispute was addressed in the German literature by a number of authors. Walther Müller in his monograph "The normal and pathological physiology of the bone" criticized Wolff for his concept of interstitial bone growth. In Müller´s view, HVL applies to the growing bone and Wolff confuses growth with hypertrophy of the mature bone. CONCLUSION: The circumstances of the emergence of HVL are inaccurately and incompletely described in the current literature, as they are mostly taken from secondary sources. HVL, as it is presented today, is not the original formulation, but the result of a long historical evolution.

• Klíčová slova
• Bone growth, History, Hueter-Volkmann law, Physis, Wollf law,
• MeSH
• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• ortopedie * dějiny   MeSH
• remodelace kosti fyziologie   MeSH
• růstová ploténka * fyziologie   MeSH
• vývoj kostí fyziologie   MeSH
• Check Tag
• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny 20. století MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• přehledy MeSH