Cancer of the uterus ; its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment; also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium / by Thomas Stephen Cullen ... with eleven lithographic plates and over three hundred coloured and black illustrations in the text; by Max Brödel and Hermann Becker.

Author/creator Cullen, Thomas Stephen
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : D. Appleton and Company, 1900.
Descriptionxvi, 693 pages : illustrations, plates ; 27 cm
Subjects

Contents Anatomy of the uterus -- The removal and examination of uterine tissues for diagnostic purposes -- Squamous-cell carcinoma of the cervix -- Extension to adjoining structures -- Condition of the tubes and ovaries -- Involvement of the lymph glands -- Autopsy findings -- Clinical aspects in squamous-cell carcinoma of the cervix -- Treatment of the squamous-cell carcinoma of the cervix -- Adenso-carcinoma of the cervix -- Adeno-carcinoma of the cervix. Organs secondarily involved ; Autopsy findings -- The clinical history in cases of adeno-carcinoma of the cervix -- Adeno-carcinoma of the body of the uterus -- Other pathological processes in the body of the uterus, sometimes associated with adeno-carcinoma -- The symptomatology of adeno-carcinoma of the body of the uterus -- The differential diagnosis in adeno-carcinoma of the body of the uterus -- Treatment of the carcinoma of the body of the uterus -- Primary squamous-cell carcinoma of the body of the uterus -- A rare variety of adeno-carcinoma of the uterus -- Coincident appearance of carcinoma in the tue cervix and in the body of the uterus -- Deciduoma malionum, sarcoma uteri decidco-cellulare (Sänger) -- Pregnancy complications carcinoma of the cervix -- Clinical phenomena common to all varieties of carcinoma of the uterus -- Prognosis -- Ætiology of carcinoma -- Inoculation experiments rearing upon the nature and ætiology of carcinoma -- Appendix. A plea for the early diagnosis of malignant disease of the uterus.
General noteEach of the colored plates accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
General note"Index of authors": pages 667-669.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
References Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 6110
Acquisitions source Laupus- Dr. William Brueggemann's daughter, Bonnie Stone, donor.
Issued in other formAlso issued on microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 2001. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm.
LCCN 00004030

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