Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 259-262, July 1995

Pioneers of shoulder replacement: Themistocles Gluck and Jules Emile Péan

    MBBS
  • Marcus J.K. Bankes
    • , MS, FRCS (Ed)
  • Roger J.H. Emery

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Roger J. H. Emery, MS, FRCS (Ed), Department of Orthopaedics, St. Mary's Hospital, Praed St., Paddington, London W2 1NY, United Kingdom.

Dr. Jules Emile Péan is widely credited with having performed the first total shoulder replacement March 11, 1893, at the Hôpital International in Paris. However, in his original report Péan refers to the work of Themistocles Gluck as being the inspiration for his shoulder prosthesis, a fact understated if not completely overlooked during the last hundred years. This article therefore attempts to reappraise the relative contributions of these two pioneering surgeons to shoulder arthroplasty.

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Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Volume 4, Issue 4 , Pages 259-262, July 1995

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