Paul Kraske

Paul Kraske was a German surgeon.
He studied medicine at the universities of Halle and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate at Halle in 1874. While a student, he served as a volunteer soldier in a fusilier regiment during the Franco-Prussian War. After graduation, he spent several years as an assistant to Richard von Volkmann at the surgical clinic in Halle, then from 1883 to 1919 was a professor and head of the surgical clinic at the University of Freiburg.
He held a particular interest in colorectal cancer, and is remembered for introducing a transsacral approach for the extirpation of cancers of the rectum.

Selected works

Beiträge zur Lehre von dem Einflusse der Nerven auf die Ernährung der Gewebe, 1874 - Study on the influence of nerves involving the nutrition of tissues.

, 1878 - Experimental studies on the regeneration of striated muscles.Die sacrale Methode der Exstirpation von Mastdarmkrebsen und die Resectio recti, 1887 - The sacral method for extirpation of rectal cancers and resection of the rectum.