Introduction

Sampson

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John A. Sampson (1873-1946) was a gynecologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He is known as the researcher who first described and named endometriomas in the ovaries. He coined the term "chocolate cysts".

This is a modified reproduction of Sampson's drawing which was first
published in Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology 1924.