|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Alfred Goedel
Austrian pathologist.
Associated eponyms:
Mortensen's syndrome
Obsolete, no longer used term for essential thrombocythaemia, a haematological disorder characterized by prolonged bleeding time and splenomegaly, with excessive bleeding after minor trauma and at surgery.
Biography:
Epstein and Goedel worked in the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Spital in Vienna when the described ”their” syndrome.
We thank André Trombeta for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- Kriegspathologische Beiträge.
In: Zimmer A, editor: Kriegschirurgie. Volume 1. Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1944.
|
|
|
