Andrew Anthony Marchetti

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Andrew Anthony Marchetti (* 1901 ; † 1970 ) was an American gynecologist and university professor .

Marchetti went to the Gynecological Clinic at Cornell University in 1943 and developed the cytodiagnostics of vaginal swabs in the laboratory of George Nicolas Papanicolaou with Herbert F. Traut . Together with Traut and Papanicolaou, he wrote the monograph The Epithelia of Woman's Reproductive Organs: a correlative study of cyclic changes in 1948 . In 1947 Marchetti was appointed professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Medical School of Georgetown University . Together with Victor F. Marshall (1913–2001) and Kermit Edward Krantz (1923–2007), he developed a surgical method for the treatment of stress incontinence (Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz operation) in 1949 .

literature

  • Aristidis Diamantis, Emmanouil Magiorkinis and Helen Koutselini: 50 years after the death of George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883-1962): Evaluation of his scientific work. In: Acta med-hist Adriat 12 (2014), pp. 181-188.
personal data
SURNAME Marchetti, Andrew Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
DATE OF DEATH 1970