Adolf Gusserow
{{Short description|German gynecologist}}
Adolf Ludwig Sigismund Gusserow (Berlin, 8 July 1836 – Berlin, 8 February 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 afterwards was a professor at the Universities of 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}})
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=okQJAAAAIAAJ 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
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- [http://www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/dokumente/16110/ Biography in Catalogue of scientific Collections] of the Humboldt-University of Berlin
- [http://www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/dokumente/14037/ Portrait in the Portrait Collection of Berlin Lecturers] of the Humboldt-University of Berlin
- [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/75501598/PDFSTART]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Cytologic and Cytochemical features of Adenoma Malignum of the Uterine Cervix
- [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.libri.de/shop/action/productDetails/6640260/adolf_gusserow_die_neubildungen_des_uterus_3836414643.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Die%2BNeubildungen%2Bdes%2BUterus%2522%2BGusserow%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Libri.de] (short biography of Adolf Gusserow)
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Category:German gynaecologists
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