A History of Endometriosis

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Batt, Ronald E. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.

The year 2010 marked the sesquicentennial of the discovery and description of adenomyosis and endometriosis by Carl Rokitansky of Vienna. The intervening 150 years have seen intense basic scientific and clinical research, and the diagnosis and treatment of millions of women worldwide. Yet there has...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Dedication
• Forward
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• 1. Prelude – Goethe, Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, and Johannes Müller
• 2. Intellectual Development of Carl von Rokitansky
• 3. Microscopy and the Discovery of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis 4. From von Rokitansky to von Recklinghausen to Cullen
• 5. cullen’s research at johns hopkins hospital
• 6. Adenomyomas of vagina, rectum, sigmoid colon and ovary
• 7. Distribution of pelvic and abdominal adenomyomas
• 8. Sampson’s theory of implantation endometriosis
• 9. Life history of ovarian endometriomas
• 10. Explication and defense of sampson’s theory of pathogenesis
• 11. Scientific objectivity
• 12. Epilogue
• appendix i
• Appendix ii
• Bibliography
• Index.