[Historical development of the Radiology Department of the 1st and 2d University Women's Hospital Vienna].

A historical review is given on the installation of the Department of Radiotherapy of the 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and its further development to the Department of Irradiation of the 1st and 2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Vienna University. The milestones of the last 40 years like the change to the "New Stockholm Method" (1954), the new construction and adaptation (1968-1972) with the installation of a telecobalt-therapy-unit (1972), the conjunction of the department of radiotherapy of both university departments to a single department in the same year and finally the introduction of the after-loading method in brachytherapy (1980) are pointed out specifically.