| Abstrakt: |
Hysterectomy has in recent years become an increasingly popular operative procedure. The frequency with which the operation is done today warrants a careful, unprejudiced, clinical investigation of a considerable number of consecutive cases in which the operation has been performed under similar conditions, in order to estimate correctly the true advantages and disadvantages of this surgical resource.The rapid development of abdominal surgery and the present comparative safety of the operation may lead to some erroneous conclusions unless the precaution of studying the clinical results is frequently taken.The refinement of the operation of hysterectomy is certainly among the first of those many laudable advances in surgery which now save and prolong life. W. L. Atlee in 1844 successfully removed a uterus containing a fibroid, and John Bellinger in 1846 did the first planned hysterectomy, though his patient died. Burnham, between 1853 and 1857, did several similar operations and Gilman |
