Contribuții românești la diagnosticul și tratamentul neoplaziilor maligne ale colului uterin

Abstract

In Romania, the anatomical and histopathological diagnosis of cervical cancer was inaugurated by Victor Babeş in 1893 (he published his studies in Medical Romania alongside C. Stoicescu, pp. 467- 469). At that moment, the histopathological diagnosis became a routine exam at the Institute of Pathology and Bacteriology, which was run by the former. The priority of the citodiagnostic of malignant cervix neoplasms (Aurel A. Babeş and Constantin Daniel, 1927) is no longer being contested, numerous authors from both Europe and the United States calling it the Babeş method and not the Pap-test because of Papanicolaou’s article, which appeared in 1928. Regarding the surgical treatment, the hysterectomy method which Thoma Ionescu predicted by eliminating the surrounding lymphatic areas (Rome, 1902), unrighteous bears the Austrian gynaecologists name Ernst Wertheim, because he had sustained that you only needed to remove the organ (uterus, ovaries, superior part of the vagina). However, Wertheim limited himself to the extrapolation of the hypertrophied lymphatic ganglions. Dimitrie Gerota inaugurated the radiotherapy for malignant neoplasms (1898), and this method of combating cervix cancer was later introduced by C. Dimitrescu-Severeanu and Ion Jovin.