title: [The beginning of gynecologic cytology for cancer diagnosis in Germany].
abstract: In 1946 at the Berlin hospital Charité the gynecologist H. Igel founded the first laboratory of gynecological Cytopathology in Germany. The circumstances of the foundation, the reaction of the German medical public and the development to the present state of the laboratory are described.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Charité, Medizinische Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: J U
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Blohmer
authors.forename: H U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Lau
mesh_terms: D001604:Berlin; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000266:history*; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000266:history*; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Der Beginn der gynäkologischen Zytologie zur Karzinomdiagnostik in Deutschland.