Fritz Brenner - bibliography

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Biography

German physician and pathologist, born 1877, Osthofen, Rheinland-Pfalz; died 1969.

Bibliography

  • Leitfaden für den gynäkologischen Operationskurs.
    Leipzig, 1899; 2nd edition, 1905; translated into Russian.
  • Vademecum für histopathologische Untersuchungen in der Gynäkologie.
    Berlin, 1901; translated into English. Biographical etc:
  • Harold Speert:
    Obstetrical-gynecological eponyms: Fritz Brenner and Brenner tumors of the ovary.
    Cancer, 1956, 9 (2): 217-221.
  • W. B. Ober:
    History of the Brenner tumor of the ovary.
    Pathology Annual, 1979 14 (part 2): 107–124.
  • Harold Speert:
    Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones.
    New York : Parthenon Publishing Group, 1996.
  • Barry G. Firkin and Judith A. Whitworth:
    Dictionary of Medical Eponyms.
    The Parthenon Publishing Group. 1989. New edition in 2002.
  • J. L. Powell:
    Fritz Brenner, MD (1877-1969).
    Journal og Pelvic Medicine and Surgery, 2007 13 (1): 43-44.

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