Carl Breus

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Carl Breus (born April 12, 1852 in Vienna , † June 15, 1914 in Latschach ) was an Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician .

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Carl Breus was born the son of a military doctor. After attending school, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1870 to 1875 . There he received his doctorate in 1876 . He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy. In 1878 he moved to the third obstetric clinic in Vienna under Gustav von Braun . In 1883 he completed his habilitation there for obstetrics and in 1892 for gynecology. In the same years he was appointed professor for these areas.

Breus described the egg of the second week of pregnancy, the Breus egg , and the subchorial hematoma of the decidua, the so-called Breus mole . He published his main work The pathological pelvic shapes together with the pathologist Alexander Kolisko in three volumes (1899-1912). In 1894, Breus was the first to use the term chocolate cysts for endometriosis of the ovary .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the statistics of the treatment of puerperal eclampsia with hot baths (1884)
  • The tuberose subchorial hematoma of the Decidua (1892)
  • The treatment of the umbilical cord break (1893)
  • Cyst formation in uterine fibroids leading to true epithelium (1894)
  • The pathological pelvic forms (with Alexander Kolisko , 1899–1912)

literature

  • A. Martin: Karl Breus †. Monthly for Obstetrics and Gynecology 40 (1914), 307–308, doi : 10.1159 / 000291073 , online (PDF document; 520 kB)
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia 2. Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-094656-4 , p. 74

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Pedro Acién, Irene Velasco: Endometriosis: A Disease That Remains Enigmatic. Obstetrics & Gynecology 2013 (2013), doi : 10.1155 / 2013/242149