Jose Abuel
AKA Dr. Jose Ignacio V. Abuel
- 1st Filipino neurosurgeon to introduce ventriculography as a diagnostic procedure in the Philippines (1928)
- 1st Filipino neurosurgeon to perform the 1st craniotomy for subdural hematoma in the Philippines (1928)
- 1st Filipino doctor to perform the 1st abdominosacral resection of the rectum (Kraske operation) in the Philippines (1932)
- Together with Drs. Jose Eduque, Andres Zavalla, and Pangilinan, they are the 1st Filipino doctors to perform a modified synchronous combined abdominoperineal operation (1935)
USEFUL LINKS
Neurosurgery at the Philippine General Hospital Through Decades of Change
Surgery in the Philippines