![]() His home in Wiesbaden, in which he had his office and radiological institute and a very important radiological library, was also destroyed by fire following a severe air attack.Įponymously affiliated with Köhler disease (avascular necrosis of the navicular bone) the first description of the ‘ Pellegrini-Stieda‘ lesion and Köhler disease II ( Freiberg infraction) The book ran through 8 editions with the ninth edition of his “Borderlands” partly printed when a bombing raid destroyed the publishing house and remained unfinished at the time of his death. Köhler’s most important work, which made him famous the world over, “The Borderlands of the Normal and the Early Pathological as Seen with the X-ray” or the “radiologist’s Bible” was firstpublished in German in 1910. He devised a method to localize foreign bodies within the eye and calcific plaques in the aortic arch as well as stereoscopic and cinematographic studies of the respiratory tract. He was one of the first to outline a practice of radiology of the heart, describing the relation of the teleroentgenogram to the orthodiagram. On roentgenography of diseases of the bones ( 1901) the hip joint and the femur (1905), and diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children (1906). He was a prolific writer, publishing three books within the first 10 years of the X-ray being discovered in 1895. ![]() Köhler’s name stands high on the list of pioneers in radiological science his life is a long record of investigation and exemplary practice as a clinical radiological specialist. Alban Köhler (1874-1947) was a German Radiologist.
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