Diagnostic Hysteroscopy
The diagnosis of intrauterine adhesion and hence Asherman syndrome (AS) can sometimes be missed.
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Intra Uterine Adhesions
Rahul Manchanda Editor
Intra Uterine Adhesions Diagnostic and Therapeutic Insight
Editor Rahul Manchanda Gynae Endoscopy Unit Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute (PSRI) Hospital New delhi Delhi India
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Foreword
Intrauterine adhesions or synechiae are known since 1894 when they were first described by Heinrich Fritsch (1844–1915). He was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen, Würzburg, and Halle. From 1893 to 1910, he was a professor at the University of Bonn. Fritsch was a highly regarded surgeon and teacher, who is credited for training an entire generation of acclaimed gynecologists, which included physicians such as Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel (1862–1909). In 1927, Bass reported 20 cases of cervical obstruction, in 1500 patients who had undergone induced abortions in a Russian hospital in Rostov. In Copenhagen, in 1946, Stamer described 24 cases of intrauterine adhesions, both postpartum and postabortion associated with intrauterine procedures. Joseph Asherman (1889–1968), born in Czechoslovakia, received his MD at the University of Prague in 1913. His family emigrated to Israel, and he was working as a gynecologist in Tel Aviv when he described in 1948 (and later in the 50s), frequency, etiology, and symptoms of intrauterine adhesions for the first time in the English language in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of The British Empire with the title Amenorrhea traumatica (at
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