TY - JOUR
T1 - Meigs' syndrome
T2 - The history of the eponym
AU - Lurie, Samuel
PY - 2000/10
Y1 - 2000/10
N2 - Meigs' syndrome is defined as presence of ascites with hydrothorax in association with benign ovarian tumor. The syndrome is named after Joe Vincent Meigs (1892-1963), a Harvard Medical School Professor of Gynecology. However, it was described by several authors in the 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries. Meigs and Cass deserve the credit for awakening the medical profession to the importance of the syndrome in 1937. At the end, the syndrome was coined Meigs' syndrome by Rhodes and Terrell in 1937. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
AB - Meigs' syndrome is defined as presence of ascites with hydrothorax in association with benign ovarian tumor. The syndrome is named after Joe Vincent Meigs (1892-1963), a Harvard Medical School Professor of Gynecology. However, it was described by several authors in the 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries. Meigs and Cass deserve the credit for awakening the medical profession to the importance of the syndrome in 1937. At the end, the syndrome was coined Meigs' syndrome by Rhodes and Terrell in 1937. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
KW - History of medicine
KW - Meigs' syndrome
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033825739&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0301-2115(99)00289-4
DO - 10.1016/S0301-2115(99)00289-4
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C2 - 10996681
AN - SCOPUS:0033825739
SN - 0301-2115
VL - 92
SP - 199
EP - 204
JO - European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
JF - European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
IS - 2
ER -