Prolapse of the uterus—shifting trends in treatment

Baer, Joseph L.; Reis, Ralph A.; Laemle, Robert M.

doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(37)90729-4

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“…In the spring of 1937, at the sixty-second Annual Meeting of the American Gynecological Society, Baer and his colleagues reported on the type of operations performed for uterine prolapse in 1928 compared to those performed in 1937. They noted that by the latter date vaginal hysterectomy had become the predominant operation, replacing interposition [ 36 ]. Modifying the surgical methods established by Mayo, and others, McCall, in 1957, published his technique of obliterating the cul-de-sac of Douglas to cure an enterocele and prevent subsequent vault prolapse [ 37 ].…”

Section: Vaginal Hysterectomy and Vault Prolapsementioning

confidence: 99%

Uterine Prolapse: From Antiquity to Today

Downing

2012

Obstetrics and Gynecology International

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Uterine prolapse is a condition that has likely affected women for all of time as it is documented in the oldest medical literature. By looking at the watershed moments in its recorded history we are able to appreciate the evolution of urogynecology and to gain perspective on the challenges faced by today's female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgeons in their attempts to treat uterine and vaginal vault prolapse. “He who cannot render an account to himself of at least three thousand years of time, will always grope in the darkness of inexperience” —Goethe, Translation of Panebaker

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Section: Vaginal Hysterectomy and Vault Prolapsementioning

confidence: 99%