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Gerald Franz Klostermann

Born  1920
Died  

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German internist, born 1920.

Biography of Gerald Franz Klostermann

  • Pigmentfleckenpolypose. Thieme, 1960.

  • Der diagnostische Blick.
    Atlas zur Differentialdiagnose innerer Krankheiten.
    With Heinrich Südhof and Walter Tischendorf.
    2nd and expanded edition. Schattauer, 1970. 340 pages.

  • Der diagnostische Blick. Atlas und Textbuch der Differentialdiagnostik.
    Begründet von G. F. Klostermann, H. Südhof und W. Tischendorf.
    6th edition, revised and expanded. Stuttgart, F. K. Schattauer Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH, 1998. 512 p.

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