Robert Abbe (1851 to 1928) was an American surgeon and early radiologist in New York City. Born in the city, he graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1871 and took his medical degree at Columbia University in 1874. He was best known as a plastic surgeon and served as surgeon and professor of surgery at New York Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital and New York Babies Hospital. The lip switch flap that bears his name is credited to him, although an Italian surgeon, Sabattini, had described it sixty years earlier in a book of limited circulation. Abbe also collected Wabanaki artifacts and founded the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, in 1927. He died of aplastic anemia, possibly caused by handling radium.
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American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City
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April 13, 1851
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March 7, 1928
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American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City
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Abbe was most known as a plastic surgeon
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Abbe was most known as a plastic surgeon
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American surgeon and pioneer radiologist
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