Publications by authors named "William T Blackerby"
Introduction: Govert Bidloo was a Dutch anatomist and royal physician who lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most remembered for his anatomy text and feud with contemporary William Cowper, Bidloo's surgical text appears to describe the first case of what is now known as a lipomyelomeningocele.
Methods: The authors review the life of Bidloo and his description of this pathologic entity.