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377 entries match Oncology & Cancer [C04]
1884
#3174.1
Ueber Lungenchirurgie.
Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.
1884
#4180
On tumours of the bladder.
Includes description of Thompson’s operation for tumors of the bladder.
1884
#4220
Die Entstehung von Nierentumoren aus Nebennierengewebe.
An important investigation of the origin of hypernephroma (“Grawitz tumor”). See also Arch. klin. Chir., 1884, 30, 824-34.
1885
#10383
Untersuchungen über staubinhalation und staubmetastase.
On the effects of dust inhalation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#3487
Ein Fall von Resection des carcinomatösen Oesophagus mit plastischem Ersatz des excidierten Stückes.
Von Mikulicz was the first to make a plastic reconstruction of the oesophagus after the resection of its cervical portion for carcinoma.
1886
#3865
Ein Fall von doppelseitigem, völlig latent verlaufenen Nebennieren-tumor und gleichzeitiger Nephritis mit Veränderungen am Circulationsapparat und Retinitis.
Pheochromocytoma first described. Republished in book form.
1886
#6084
Ablation des tumeurs flbreuses ou myomes du corps de l’utérus par la voie vaginale.
Péan’s method of morcellement of the uterus for the removal of tumors.
1887
#3490
Die sacrale Methode der Exstirpation von Mastdarmkrebsen und die Resectio recti.
Kraske introduced the sacral method of resection of the rectum for carcinoma.
1887
#3296
Erste Heilung eines Larynx-Cancroids vermittelst Ausrottung per vias naturales.
First successful intralaryngeal extirpation of a malignant growth.
1888
#4574
Intracranial tumours.
1888
#2620.2
Demonstration der durch Impfung von Hund auf Hund erzeugten Carcinomknötchen.
A tumor transplant from dog to dog was reported by Wehr.
1888
#3630
Contribution à l’étude clinique et anatomo-pathologique du cancer primitif du pancréas.
“Bard-Pic syndrome” first described.
1889
#2621
Erfolgreiche experimentelle Uebertragung von Carcinom.
Hanau successfully transplanted cancer in mammals.
1889
#4351
Zur Symptomatologie des multiplen Myeloms.
“Kahler’s disease” – multiple myeloma.
1889
#5620
Experimental surgery.
Senn made important experimental studies on air embolism, introduced a method of diagnosing intestinal perforation by means of insufflation of hydrogen (see No. 3494), and used X-rays in the treatment of leukemia. He …
1890
#2622
An address on a characteristic organism of cancer.
“Russell’s bodies.”
1891
#3069.1
Farbenanalytische Untersuchungen zur Histologie und Klinik des Blutes.
Extension of Ehrlich’s work on the differential blood count. By means of his methods of staining blood cells Ehrlich differentiated two types of leukemia, lymphatic and myelogenous.
1891
#2622.1
Inoculation en série d’une tumeur épithéliale de la souris blanche.
In 1889 Morau transferred epitheliomata in mice and by 1893 had carried his experiments through 17 generations, the first systematic survey of tumor-host relationships from a purely biological viewpoint.
1891
#3791
Ueber eine Geschwulst der sogen. Glandula carotica oder des Nodulus caroticus. In Festschrift Rudolf Virchow, 1, 547-54.
First account of the pathology of carotid body tumors.
1892
#3502
Om extra-abdominal Behandlung af cancer intestinalis (rectum derfra undtaget) med en Fremstilling af de for denne Sygdom foretagne Operationer og deres Resultater.
Bloch was first to employ the two-stage (Mikulicz) operation for cancer of the colon. See also No. 3527.
1892
#3772
Clinical lecture on acute Hodgkin’s disease
Dreschfeld preceded Kundrat in differentiating Hodgkin’s disease and lymphosarcoma.
1893
#2623
Ueber Lympho-Sarkomatosis.
Kundrat separated lymphosarcoma (“Kundrat’s disease”) from other malignant tumors involving the lymphatic system.
1893
#3508
Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie bei Carcinoma oesophagi.
See No. 3512.
1893
#6094
Ueber Sarcoma uteri deciduo-cellulare und andere deciduale Geschwülste.
A detailed classification of “deciduomata”, chorionic neoplasms, and a review of the literature.
1894
#5938
Ueber die eitrige metastatische Ophthalmie, besonders ihre Aetiologie und prognostische Bedeutung.
Classic account of metastatic ophthalmia.
1894 –1895
#5640
The results of operations for the cure of cancer of the breast performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894.
Halsted’s operation invariably excised the pectoralis major muscle in radical mastectomy. His operation, modified by the retention of the pectoral muscles, remains the cornerstone of surgical treatment of carcinoma of…
1894
#11652
Lectures on the diagnosis of abdominal tumors. Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal.
This 165-page "monograph, based on lectures delivered to the postgraduate class at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1893, includes 67 case reports and 43 illustrations, some of which are photographs that depict patients …
1895
#2128.1
Blasengeschwülste bei Fuchsin-Arbeitem.
Rehn noted the frequent appearance of papilloma and carcinoma of the bladder among men employed in the aniline dye industry.
1895
#6097
Ueber eine eigenthümliche Form des Ovarial carcinoms.
Granulosa cell tumor first described.
1895
#6097.1
Über die sogenannten “decidualen” Geschwülste im Anschluss an normale Geburt, Abort, Blasenmole und Extrauterinschwangerschaft.
Marchand’s theory of the histogenesis of choriocarcinoma (chorionepithelioma). He considered that such tumors derived from trophoblast and not from decidua.
1895
#6100
Deciduoma malignum.
First case of choriocarcinoma reported in North America.
1896
#2001
Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence.
The discovery of radioactivity – research stimulated by Roentgen’s discovery of x rays. In 1903 Becquerel received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered …
1896
#5778.1
On the treatment of inoperable cases of carcinoma of the mamma: suggestions for a new method of treatment, with illustrative cases.
Öophorectomy in the treatment of breast cancer.
1896
#6101
Ueber das Fibrosarcoma ovarii mucocellulare (carcinomatodes).
Original description of “Krukenberg’s tumor”.
1897
#3309.1
Photographs of a case of rapid destruction of the nose and face.
Malignant granuloma of the nose first described.
1897
#3775
Lymphosarkom (Lymphosarkomatose, Pseudoleukämie, Myelom, Chlorom).
“Paltauf-Sternberg disease” (see also No. 3776). On the European Continent the name “Hodgkin-Paltauf-Sternberg disease” is in use.
1898
#2003
Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.
The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…
1898
#3776
Ueber eine eigenartige, unter dem Bilde der Pseudoleukämie verlaufende Tuberkulose des lymphatischen Apparates.
In his classic description of lymphadenoma, Sternberg separated it from aleukemic leukemia, with which it had hitherto been included.
1898
#11152
Les cancers épithéliaux. Histologie - Histogenèse - Etiologie - Applications thérapeutiques.
1899
#2624
Fall af epiteliom behandladt med Roentgenstraler.
In June 1899 Sjögren was the first successfully to use Roentgen rays in the treatment of cancer.
1899
#3639.1
Contribution to the surgery of the bile passages, especially of the common bile-duct.
“Among Halsted’s many outstanding surgical accomplishments those related to surgery of the biliary tract are lesser known. However, he is commonly credited with performing the first successful operation for a primary …
1899
#4227
Die Mischgeschwülste. I. Die Mischgeschwülste der Niere.
Embryoma of the kidney (“Wilms’s tumor”). For the history of the operation for Wilms’s tumor see B. Thomasson and M.M. Ravitch, Wilms Tumor, Urol. Surg., 1961, 11, 83-100.
1899
#6109.1
Zur Casuistik einiger seltenerer Ovarial- und Tuben-Tumoren.
“Brenner tumor” first described; see also No. 6118.
1900
#3888
Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Histologie der menschlichen Hypophysis cerebri.
Benda showed that the pituitary tumor in acromegaly consists of chromophil cells.
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 …
1900
#6114
Zur Frage der Radical operation beim Uteruskrebs.
Wertheim’s radical operation for cancer of the uterus.
1900
#11289
Cancer of the stomach: A clinical study.
This was Osler's first collaboration with Thomas McCrae. Osler and McCrae reviewed 150 cases of cancer of the stomach seen at Johns Hopkins in an encyclopedic fashion. Surgery was often recommended for definitive diag…
1901
#2624.1
On transplantation of tumours.
Loeb successfully transplanted cystic sarcoma of the thyroid in rats. He established the fact that growth of the transplant occurred through proliferation of its peripheral cells.
1901
#2661
Die Carcinomlitteratur. Eine Zusammenstellung der in-und ausländischen Krebsschriften bis 1900.
1901
#3866
A study of congenital sarcoma of the liver and suprarenal. With report of a case.
Pepper’s type of adrenal medullary tumor.