1894-1963 · Gynaecologist
Herbert F. Traut
Gynaecologist who collaborated with George Papanicolaou on the vaginal smear diagnosis of uterine cancer, first published together in 1941.
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van Gijn J, Gijselhart JP. [Papanicolaou and the cervical smear]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2012;156(40):A4965.
Swailes AL, Hossler CE, Kesterson JP. Pathway to the Papanicolaou smear: The development of cervical cytology in twentieth-century America and implications in the present day. Gynecol Oncol. 2019;154(1):3-7.