Pirogov Method

The Pirogov method is a surgical method of obtaining a sheet of a multicellular malignant tumor (including the kidney) by partially cutting out the affected area of ​​​​renal tissue and mobilizing lymphatic vessels and nerves. Other names of the method are surgery for kidney tumors according to Pirogov, Pirogov Method, also known as “pies”. The Pirogov method was developed thanks to the contribution of the outstanding Russian surgeon and scientist Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov in the 60s of the 19th century - 80s of the 20th century. The works of Pavel Fedorovich Bogoslovsky are also indirectly related to Pirogov’s method.

Pirogov is a Russian surgeon and teacher, a professor and a well-known general surgeon. In his scientific works he combined the ideas of German surgery and European medicine. He also developed a unique method of “stunning” during surgical operations, which became the main principle and part of the “opening the abdominal cavity” method.

Pirogov proposed the treatment of many surgical diseases, widely used ether anesthesia in surgery, and also personally participated in the development of methods to combat anaerobic infection. This was manifested in his works on gunshot wounds, saber wounds and military field treatments during the campaign during the defense of Sevastopol in 1854–1856. During this period, Pirogov performed a wide range of operations, including on the brain, and was directly involved in the treatment of one of the surgeons of the Crimean War, N.I. Pirogov the son. At the same time, he studied the wounds of soldiers and their pathological course until death.