• Int Orthop · May 2019

    Biography Historical Article

    Spine deformities and trauma in Avicenna's Canon of Medicine.

    • Konstantinos Markatos, Georgios Androutsos, Marianna Karamanou, Maria Kaseta, Demetrios Korres, and Andreas Mavrogenis.
    • Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephessiou Street, 115 27, Athens, Greece. gerkremer@yahoo.gr.
    • Int Orthop. 2019 May 1; 43 (5): 1271-1274.

    Aim Of The StudyThe purpose of this historic review is to summarize the life and work of Avicenna (980-1037) and his contribution to the diagnosis and treatment of spinal deformities and trauma.MethodWe conducted an extensive search in libraries as well as online in Pubmed and Google Scholar.ResultsAvicenna in his work Canon of Medicine combines the knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman physicians and surgeons and he combines them with the extensive of Arabic medicine and pharmacology.ConclusionAvicenna made an impact with his medical writings in which he summarized the works of ancient Greek and Roman physicians like Hippocrates and Galen with the influence of medieval authors and the knowledge of the Arabic medicine and pharmacology. His descriptions and comments in his work Canon of Medicine summarize and comment the work of his predecessors and it remained a work of reference until at least the sixteenth century.

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