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CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953)

CULLEN, Thomas Stephen (1868 – 1953)

1868 – 1953

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1900 CE

#6110

Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.

Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a…

1916 CE

#6124.1

Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus

Contains the first reference to what would become known as “Cullen’s sign”, discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, as a sign of ruptured ectopic gestation. This work contains extraordinary il…

1919 CE

#6220

Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists. In: Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 420-21.

“Cullen’s sign”.