sentences:  It derives instead from the surname of Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel (1862–1909), the German gynecologist who invented the technique in 1900.In the United Kingdom, the incision was popularized by Monroe Kerr, who first used it in 1911, so in English-speaking countries it is sometimes called the Kerr incision or the Pfannenstiel–Kerr incision.Kerr published the results in 1920, proposing that this method would cause less damage to the vascularized areas of uterus than the classical operation.