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)