Adolf Gusserow
Adolf Ludwig Sigismund Gusserow (Berlin July 8, 1836 - Berlin February 8, 1906) was a German gynecologist who was a native of Berlin. He married Clara Oppenheim (1861–1944), a descendant of Berlin banker Joseph Mendelssohn.
Gusserow began his career as a lecturer of gynecological diseases and obstetrics in Berlin, and subsequently practiced medicine in Utrecht, Zurich and Strasbourg. Later he returned to Berlin as director of the clinic of obstetrics and gynecology at the Berlin-Charité. Two of his better-known students and assistants were Alfred Dührssen (1862-1933) in Berlin, and Paul Zweifel (1848-1927) in Zurich.
In 1870 Gusserow was the first physician to describe a rare type of uterine cervical adenocarcinoma that is sometimes referred to as "adenoma malignum" or as a mucinous type of "minimal deviation adenocarcinoma" (mucinous MDA). It can be recognized by its "deceptively bland" histological appearance. Gusserow published his findings in a treatise titled Ueber Sarcoma des Uterus.
Among his better written efforts was Die Neubildungen des Uterus (Neoplasms of the uterus).
Publications
- Zur Lehre vom Stoffwechsel des Foetus. Engelhardt, Leipzig, 1872
- Ueber Menstruation und Dysmenorrhoe. Breitkopf and Haertel, Leipzig, 1874
- Die Neubildungen des Uterus. Enke, Stuttgart, 1886 (Reprint 2007, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, ISBN 3-8364-1464-3)
- Geburtshuelfe und Gynaekologie in Großbritannien - Ein Reisebericht. Engelhardt, Leipzig 1864 (in Google Books online)
Literature
- Pagel J: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Vienna 1901, 660-661
- Nagel W: Adolf Gusserow (1836—1906). BJOG 9 (2005), 385-6, doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1906.tb09001.x
References
- Adolf Gusserow in the German National Library catalogue
- Biography in Catalogue of scientific Collections of the Humboldt-University of Berlin
- Portrait in the Portrait Collection of Berlin Lecturers of the Humboldt-University of Berlin
- Cytologic and Cytochemical features of Adenoma Malignum of the Uterine Cervix
- Libri.de (short biography of Adolf Gusserow)
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