Carl Breus


Carl Breus was an Austrian obstetrician born in Vienna.
He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his doctorate in 1876. Afterwards he was an assistant at the Vienna Maternity Clinic, and in 1883 received his habilitation.
In 1892 he described a rare condition now known as "Breus' mole", defined as a massive subchorionic hematoma of the placenta that takes place in a stillbirth. He is credited with the design of an obstetrical forceps that was once widely used in German hospitals.

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