Czerny made contributions to other surgical fields, including a new radical operation for inguinal hernia, a pyelolithotomy for kidney stone disease, and in 1879 performed the first total hysterectomy via the vagina.
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"' Mary Dixon Jones "'( 1828 1908 ) is known for being the first American physician to propose and perform a total hysterectomy to treat a tumor in the uterine muscle ( myoma ).
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Among those who do not need Pap tests, the cancer society says, are women who have never had sexual intercourse, women who have had total hysterectomies that included removal of the cervix for reasons other than cancer and women age 70 or older who have had three or more normal Pap test results and no abnormal results in the last 10 years.
