Roberts Operation

Roberts Edward (1882 – 14 June 1937), born in London, British. Known as a famous British neurosurgeon and scientist, he was engaged in research in the field of the nervous system.

The Roberts procedure is a method of open surgery of arteries and veins using ligation, division and cutting of nerves. The term "nerve ligation" was coined in England in 1870 to refer to surgery for nerve disease in the lower extremities and is still used today. He was known as Dr. Roberts (originally Edward Ross) in the medical literature of the time. The operation has been shown to have many limitations, the main one being the possibility of damage to the spinal tract along the nerve ganglion. For this reason, operations remained limited. Today, the method of ligating nerves and arteries is known as Nerve Conduction Ligation Operation.