Nikolay Markianovich Volkovich

Nikolay Markianovich Volkovich (Николай Маркианович Волкович) (1858 – 1928) was a Ukrainian surgeon.

• Eponymously linked with Volkovich-Kocher sign, which can be called the most popular among all the specific signs of acute appendicitis: pain, initially arising in the epigastric region (sometimes immediately below the xiphoid process), after a few hours localized in the right ileal region
• In 1898 N. Volkovitch independently began to practice for appendectomy an oblique physiological incision of the abdominal wall, also known as McBurney’s point

• At the beginning of his career he studied ENT surgery. In his first books, he described the problems of performing emergency tracheostomy in chronic ill patients, stages of one well-known method of modern rhinoplasty.

“Das Rhinosklerom”, 1889

• For surgical treatment of acute cholecystitis N. Volkovich used access through the rectus abdominis muscle. His next monograph is devoted to own surgical technique, where he accentuates that he did not observe a single case of postoperative hernia.

“Аппендицит, желчнокаменная болезнь и туберкулезный перитонит”, 1926 г.

• He described in detail the types of fractures and their consequences, especially traumas of the skull and spine. Based on these findings, he invented special immobilization devices, which are widely known throughout the world.

“Повреждения костей и суставов”, 1928 г.

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