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Extirpation of the uterus and ovaries for sarcomatous disease.

Publication Details

Nelson’s Amer. Lancet, 8, 147. 1854 CE.

First successful abdominal hysterectomy, 25 May, 1853. An account of Burnham’s work is given by J. C. Irish in Trans. Amer. med. Ass. 1878, 29, 447-61.

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