Biography
Ramón Macías Zepeda, Mexican surgeon (Villa de los Reyes, Michoacán State 14 January 1856 – Ciudad de Mexico 04 September 1916)
With Regino Gonzalez performed the third case of perineal prostatectomy in the world using a new procedure (1896) that described in 1897
Le cure radicale du prostatisme: quelques idees originales et nouveaux chirurgicaux. Rev. d. Anat. Pathol. et Clin. Mexico (1897)
Introduced a number of improvements to hysterectomy
Described a technique for intermittent drainage of pleura before Mozingo
La canalización intermitente de la pleura. Rev. Anat. Patol. Clin. 2:485-80, 1879
Developed a treatment for urethral narrowings (1885)
DEVELOPED/INVENTED
A dilator mirror for bladder
Curved handgrip needles for prostatectomy
New dilator urethrotome
An automatic lancet or knife