History of Urology at the Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Center.

History of Urology at the Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Center. Acta Clin Croat. 2018 Oct;57(Suppl 1):9-20 Authors: Ružić B, Katušić J, Spajić B, Reljić A, Popović A, Štimac G, Tomašković I, Šoipi Š, Justinić D, Grubišić I, Tomić M, Knežević M, Svaguša I, Pezelj I, Nikles S, Pirša M, Vrhovec B Abstract The history of Croatian urology clearly shows its affiliation to the medical and civilizational circle of the Western world. The Department of Urology at the Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center is the oldest urology institution in the Republic of Croatia. The Department was established in 1894, when the new Sestre milosrdnice Hospital was open in Vinogradska cesta in Zagreb. It was then that doctor Dragutin Mašek founded the so-called III Department, which, in addition to treating urology patients, also treated patients with conditions of the ear, nose and throat, eye diseases and dermatologic conditions. Dragutin Mašek had already realized that medicine would soon be divided into fields and had assigned younger doctors joining the III Department to specific fields. As a result, urology was given to Aleksandar Blašković, who founded the first independent department of urology in Croatia in 1926. In 1927, he was appointed Professor of urology at the Zagreb School of Medicine, where he established the first department of urology and was giving lectures and practicals. Under his leadership, the D...
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