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309 entries match Urology & Nephrology [C13]
1865
#4211.1
Hydronephrosis in a boy four years old, repeatedly tapped; recovery.
Hillier performed the first therapeutic percutaneous nephrostomy for giant hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a four-year old boy.
1868
#4173
Clinical lectures on diseases of the urinary organs.
Thompson was Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College, London, and an eminent genito-urinary surgeon. He performed the operation of lithotrity upon Leopold I and Napoleon III; he also developed the two-glas…
1870
#4212
Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. I. Abt.
A classic description of glomerulonephritis (“Klebs’s disease”) is on pp. 644-48.
1870
#4213
Exstirpation einer Niere am Menschen.
First successful planned nephrectomy for urinary tract fistula. A more detailed, illustrated account of the case appears in No. 4214.
1871 –1876
#4214
Chirurgie der Nieren. Teil 1-2.
Simon was Professor of Surgery at Rostock and Heidelberg. The work was projected as 3 vols., but Simon died before it was completed.
1872
#4215
On the pathology of the morbid state commonly called chronic Bright’s disease with contracted kidney (“arterio-capillary fibrosis”).
First clear description of arteriosclerotic atrophy of the kidney (“Gull–Sutton disease”), and probably the first description of hypertensive nephrosclerosis.
1873
#4215.1
Lectures on Bright’s disease: with special reference to pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.
Johnson showed that fatty infiltrations of the renal tubules are reflected by the presence of fatty casts and droplets in the urine, thus introducing the concept of lipoid nephrosis associated with nephrotic syndrome.
1874
#1235
Versuche über den Vorgang der Harnabsonderung.
Heidenhain’s “secretion” theory of renal function.
1874
#2906.1
The etiology of Bright’s disease and the prealbuminuric stage.
Mahomed proved that cases of “arteriocapillary fibrosis” were hypertensive, and showed that they may occur without renal involvement.
1874
#4261
Di un nuovo cauterizzatore ed incisore termo-galvanico contro le iscurie da ipertrofia prostatica.
Bottini’s galvano-cautery for relief of prostatic obstruction.
1875
#4174
Exstirpation eines Harnblasenmyoms nach vorausgehendem tiefen und hohen Blasenschnitt. Heilung.
First abdominal resection of a tumor of the bladder. The operation was performed by Billroth.
1876
#4174.1
Sondirung des Harnleiters mit Hilfe des Endoskops.
Successful catheterization of the ureter under vision.
1876
#4216
The state of the arteries in Bright’s disease.
Gowers’s important account of the changes in the retinal vessels in Bright’s disease is reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 605-11.
1876
#11161
Du cancer chez les enfants.
Duzan's thesis was the first treatise exclusively on cancer in childhood. He was able to collect 182 cases. All 182 cases were of pediatric sarcoma: 70 of the eye, 45 of the kidney, 11 of the testicle, 8 of the prosta…
1877
#4216.1
Eine eigenthümliche Nierenexstirpation.
First nephrectomy for malignant disease.
1877
#4216.2
Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins.
Charcot defined “scarlatinous nephritis” and “amyloid kidney” as distinct pathological entities. English translation, New York, 1878.
1878
#4292
Lithotrity by a single operation.
Introduction of litholapaxy at one sitting.
1879
#24
Oeuvres, texte collationné sur les manuscrits, traduit pour la première fois en français avec une introduction. Publication commencée par Ch. Daremberg, continuée et terminée par Ch. Émile Ruelle.
Greek–French edition containing all the extant works of Rufus, as well as fragments collected from a wide range of ancient and medieval sources. Digital facsimile fro the BnF at this link. The treatise On the interrog…
1879
#4175
Eine neue Beobachtungs- und Untersuchungsmethode für Harnröhre, Harnblase und Rectum.
Nitze devised an electrically lighted cystoscope in 1877, which made possible great improvements in the surgery of the bladder.
1879
#4217
Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankung vom pathologisch-anatomischen Standpunkte.
Classic study of the pathological anatomy of Bright’s disease.
1880
#1225
The anatomy and pathology of two important glands of the female urethra.
“Skene’s glands” described.
1880 –1881
#4292.1
A case of nephro-lithotomy; or the extraction of a calculus from an undilated kidney.
Nephrolithotomy; removal of a renal calculus by a lumbar incision.
1881
#3944
Ueber Drüsenepithelnekrosen beim Diabetes mellitus mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des diabetischen Coma.
“Ebstein’s disease”, hyaline degeneration and necrosis of the epithelial cells of the renal tubules, sometimes seen in diabetes mellitus.
1881
#4176
Ueber eine neue Form von Haemoglobinurie beim Menschen.
First description of “march hemoglobinuria” – the condition in which physical exertion gives rise to the passage of red urine containing hemoglobin in solution.
1881
#4177
Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des voies urinaires.
Guyon was the outstanding French urologist of his day, an operator of great skill and a brilliant lithotomist.
1881
#4177.1
On the occurrence of micro-organisms in fresh urine.
Roberts reported a relationship between the finding of bacteria in the urine and the development of cystitis after catheterization.
1881
#4218
Die operative Behandlung der beweglichen Niere durch Fixation.
Hahn devised the operation of nephropexy (nephrorrhaphy) for the relief of movable kidney.
1882
#4178
Die Albuminurie im gesunden und kranken Zustande.
1882
#4219
Un caso di rene mobile fissato col mezzo dell’operazione cruenta.
Important modification of Hahn’s operation of nephropexy.
1883
#12752
Sexual impotence in the male.
One of the earliest serious medical studies of the subject from the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and psychological points of view. In the second edition (1887) retitled Sexual impotence in the male and female…
1884
#4179
The hydrochlorate of cocaine in genito-urinary procedures.
Local anesthesia first employed in urology.
1884
#4180
On tumours of the bladder.
Includes description of Thompson’s operation for tumors of the bladder.
1884
#4220
Die Entstehung von Nierentumoren aus Nebennierengewebe.
An important investigation of the origin of hypernephroma (“Grawitz tumor”). See also Arch. klin. Chir., 1884, 30, 824-34.
1885
#4181
On cyclic albuminuria (albuminuria in the apparently healthy).
“Pavy’s disease” – recurrent albuminuria.
1886
#3865
Ein Fall von doppelseitigem, völlig latent verlaufenen Nebennieren-tumor und gleichzeitiger Nephritis mit Veränderungen am Circulationsapparat und Retinitis.
Pheochromocytoma first described. Republished in book form.
1886
#4182
Some observations on rupture of the urinary bladder, with an account of two cases of intra-peritoneal rupture successfully treated by abdominal section and subsequent suture of the vesical rent.
MacCormac introduced an operation for the treatment of intraperitoneal rupture of the bladder.
1888
#4262.1
On supra-pubic prostatectomy, with three cases in which the operation was successfully performed for chronic prostatic hypertrophy.
McGill pioneered the operation of suprapubic prostatectomy, first performed by him in March 1887.
1888
#4183
Leçons cliniques sur les affections chirurgicales de la vessie et de la prostate.
Guyon was Professor of genitourinary surgery at Paris, and a great teacher (see also No. 4177).
1888
#4221
Chronic pyelitis, successfully treated by kolpo-uretero-cystotomy.
Bozeman treated vesical and fecal fistulae in women, dealing with the complication of pyelitis by catheterization of the ureter through a vesicovaginal opening.
1889
#4183.1
Zur Operation der angeborenen Blasenspalte.
First enterocystoplasty.
1889
#4184
Lehrbuch der Kystoskopie.
Nitze introduced the cystoscope in 1877 (see No. 4175) and in 1889 published his important monograph on cystoscopy.
1890
#4262
Ueber radicale Behandlung der auf Hypertrophie der Prostata beruhenden Ischurie.
Bottini’s Operation for hypertrophy of the prostate.
1890
#4222
Ueber Blasenscheidenfisteloperationen und über Beckenhochlagerung bei Operationen in der Bauchhöhle.
Includes an account of his attempt, 1886, to cure hydronephrosis by a plastic operation – the first recorded surgical intervention for the relief of this condition. Includes description of the “Trendelenburg position”…
1891
#4184.1
Über Blasenekstirpation.
First successful total cystectomy.
1891
#4185
Les tumeurs de la vessie.
Includes description of “Albarran’s glands”, subtrigonal glands in the bladder. He introduced a classification based on embryological origin. See also No. 4195.
1891
#11124
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.
Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.
1892
#4223
Ein Fall von Resektion des Harnleiters.
First successful plastic operation for the relief of hydronephrosis.
1893
#4185.1
Catheterization of the male ureters. A preliminary report.
First catheterization of male ureters.
1893
#4186
The surgery of the ureters. A clinical, literary, and experimental research.
Uretero-ureterostomy. Van Hook originated modern methods of ureteral repair.
1893
#4187
The examination of the female bladder and the catheterization of the ureters under direct inspection.
Kelly introduced aeroscopic examination of the bladder and catheterization of the ureters. See also Ann. Surg., 1898, 27, 475-86.