Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel

Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel ( born June 28, 1862 in Berlin, † July 3, 1909 in Kiel ) was a German gynecologist.

In 1900 he modified in 1881 by Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer specified method of the transverse ( to him as "horizontal" specified ) Caesarean section, which is now named after him ( Pfannenstiel ), by opening the fascia of the abdominal muscles also transversal.

Curriculum vitae

Pfannenstiel studied until 1885 medicine in his native city and graduated in the same year, summa cum laude. He then worked for two years as an assistant physician at the City Hospital in Poznan, then at the Women's Hospital in Wroclaw. He habilitated in 1890 and settled in 1894 in a private practice in Wroclaw down until he could go on a 1896 professors site. In the same year he became head of the gynecological department of the Elizabethan Hospital in Wrocław. In 1902 he accepted a call to Giessen and in 1907 another to Kiel. There he died of an infection he had contracted during an operation. He was the father of Wilhelm Pfannenstiel.

Publications

• About the diseases of the ovary and the side ovary.
• About the tumors of the uterus ( the grape-like sarcoma, double carcinomas, the adenomyomata ).
• About pregnancy in uterus didelphys. About artificial. Premature birth.
• About the malignant Deciduoma.
• About Eieinbettung and Placentarentwicklung about the origin of the syncytium.
• About the Pseudomucine cystic Ovariengeschwülste. Leipzig, A. T. Engelhardt, 1890.
• About the advantages of suprasymphysaren Fascienquerschnitts for the gynecological Koliotomien, as a contribution to the indication of the operation routes. Collection of clinical lectures, gynecology (Leipzig), vol.97 pp. 1735-1756, 1900. PMID 4589293