Carlos Alberto Castaño Bazterrica, Argentine gynecologist (Buenos Aires 26 December 1887 – Buenos Aires 1964)

CONCEPTS

Proposed the concept of uterine pseudo-fibroma

With A.J. Risolia named ovariopatic metrorrhagies in Prensa Med. Arg (1921)

Pointed out that gonorrhea may produce genuine syphilitic adnexitis

Syphilitic lesions in uterine adnexa. Semana Medica 25(44), 1918

Nuevo concepto etiopatogenico de los fibromiomas uterinos. Bol. Inst. Clin. Quir. Univ. Buenos Aires 1(2):35-9, 1925

Etiologie et pathogenie des fibromyomes uterins. Conception nouvelle. Bull. Soc. Obst. Gyn. Paris 3:174, 1926

SIGNS

Proposed Castaño sign or pudendal point (erotic pain) for pelvic varicocele

Signos exteriores de la pulsación cardiaca o choque de la punta. La pulsación cardiaca externa sistolica: demonstración fisiologica, experimental (1908)

NEW OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES

Proposed the operation for radical cure of pelvic varicocele

Varicocele pelvico, su diagnostico y tratamiento: un nuevo procedimiento de curación radical. Rev. Espan. Obst. Gynec. (1921)

Pelvic varicocele: diagnosis and the treatment and a new operation for its radical cure. Surgery Gyn. Obst. 40(2):237, 1925

Proposed a surgery for treatment of sclerokystic ovaritis

With Anibal S. Introzzi. Nuevo procedimiento quirurgico para el tratamiento de la ovaritis escleroquistica. Bol. Inst. Clin. Quir. 5:265, 1929

Retroversion et ligamentopexie. Technique personelle (1933)