• J Buon · Jul 2013

    Historical Article

    Aretaeus of Cappadocia and the first accurate description of uterine carcinoma.

    • G Tsoucalas, M Karamanou, K Laïos, and G Androutsos.
    • Department of History of Medicine, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
    • J Buon. 2013 Jul 1; 18 (3): 805-7.

    AbstractIn our article we present the work on uterine cancer of the distinguished physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia. Uterine cancer was known since antiquity and its presence is testified in ancient Egyptian and Greek medical writings. However in the 2nd century AD Aretaeus provided the first accurate description of uterine cancer, dividing it in two forms, an ulcerated and a non ulcerated, both painful and fatal.

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