TO MARK THE 150-th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL OPERATION IN RUSSIA FOR TRANSPERITONEAL REMOVAL OF THE UTERUS, PERFORMED BY N.V. EKK IN ST. PETERSBURG

Until 1874, all attempts in Russia to perform transperitoneal removal of the uterus (hysterectomy) affected by myomatous nodes or a malignant tumor ended in death. The main cause of the adverse outcomes was bleeding from the surgery area and peritonitis. The first, successful hysterectomy in Russia, which ended with the recovery of the patient, was performed on 08/22/1874 by an employee of the Medical Surgical Academy, virtuoso surgeon Nikolai Vladimirovich Ekk. N.V.Ekk reported on the patient at a meeting of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg on 05/02/1877 (Protocol No. 14).