Talk:Paper - Spinnbarkeit- A characteristic of cervical mucus

Obstet Gynecol Surv. 1949 Oct;4(5):614-23. Cervical mucus; cyclic variations and their clinical significance. SHETTLES LB. PMID: 18142502

By L B Shettles Obstet gynco Suni , 4, 614-623, Oct 1949 Bibliography

20 Behaviour of the Vagina during the Menstrual Cycle and after Local Hormone Treatment (Das Verhaltcn der Scheide iiahrend des Zyklus und nacb ortlicher Hormonbehandlung )

By K W ScHULTZE and E Gischler ZbI Gynah , 70. 1189-1195, 1948 2 figs , 22 refs

The authors took vaginal and endometnal biopsy specimens from 41 normally menstruatmg women The vaginal specimens were taken from identical areas after the patients had been in hospital for a few da)rs In additaon, specimens were thken from 15 women with hormonal disturbances It is pointed out that the vagmal epithehum is found to vary in different parts of the same vagma when biopsies are taken simultaneously No correlation between appearances of vagmal and endometnal specimens could be found in either group of patients and the cychcal changes desenbed by Diercks (Arc/t Gynbh , 130, 46, 1927) could not be demonstrated It is pomted out that the hormonal changes dunng the menstrual cycle are probably too small to cause any changes in the vagmal epithehum

Changes could be demonstrated m pregnancy or when oestrogens had been apphed locally to the senile vagma In both instances the amounts of oestrogens involved were far in excess of those present dunng the menstrual cycle