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Friedrich Wohlwill
German neuropathologist, 1881-1958. Hamburg; Lissabon.
Associated eponyms:
Wohlwill-Andrade syndrome
A hereditary form of amyloidosis characterized by predominantly neurological symptoms.
Biography:
Friedrich Wohlwill was a neuropathologist at the St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg.
Bibliography:
- Ueber die nur mikroskopisch erkennbare Form der Periarteriitis nodosa.
Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, Berlin, 1923, 246: 377-411.
- Ueber Encephalomyelitis bei Masern.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Berlin, 1928, 112: 20.
- E. L. Matteson:
Polyarteritis nodosa and microscopicpolyarteritis: translation of the original articles on classic polyarteritis nodosa by Adolf Kuddmaul and Rudolf Maier and microscopic polyarteritis nodosa by Friedrich Wohlwill.
Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Prees. 1998.
- E. L. Matteson:
History of early investigation in polyarteritis nodosa.
Arthritis Care Research, 1999, 12: 294-302.
- E. L. Matteson:
Historical perspective of the classification of vasculitis.
Arthritis Care Research 2000; 44: 122-127.
- E. L. Matteson:
Historical perspective of vasculitis: Polyarterits nodosa and microscopic polyangiitis. Current Rheumatology Reports 2002; 4: 67-74.
We thank Cesar J. Guimarães-Soares, MD, for information submitted.
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