CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953)
1868 – 1953
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1900
#6110
Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.
Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a sign of ruptured …
1916
#6124.1
Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus
Contains the first reference to what would become known as “Cullen’s sign”, discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, as a sign of ruptured ectopic gestation. This work contains extraordinary illustrations by Max…
1919
#6220
Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists. In: Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 420-21.
“Cullen’s sign”.