[Treatment of uterine myoma (1876-1936). A professional controversy between surgeons and radiologists].

All along the process of development of radiotherapy as a medical specialty, different controversies have emerged making dermatologists, gynecologists, ear, nose and throat specialists, and radiotherapists fight each other for the monopoly of the therapy based on radiation. In the present work we study an aspect of the negotiations that shaped up the therapeutical policy in the treatment of uterine myomas.