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Kurt Mendel
German neurologist, born January 27, 1874, Berlin-Pankow; died 1946.
Associated eponyms:
Kurt Mendel's syndrome
Diabète insipide associé è une paralysie du nerf pathétique.
Mendel's Aurikularisphänomen
Clinical and quite reliable sign for base meningitis (German: Basismeningitis).
Mendel's reflex
Tapping the dorsum of foot (area of n Os cuboideum and Os cuneiforme) normally causes extension of 2nd-5th toes. A pyramidal lesion is characteristic by flexion.
Mendel's sign
Percussion pain in the epigastrium occurring in ulcus ventriculi or duodeni.
Biography:
Kurt Mendel studied in Göttingen, Berlin, and Kiel, where he obtained his doctorate in 1897. 1899-1907 he worked in the policlinic and clinic of Emanuel Mendel (1839-1907) in Berlin, and settled as a nerve physician.
Bibliography:
- Der Unfall in der Ätiologie der Nervenkrankheiten.
Berlin, 1908.
- Die Wechseljahre des Mannes.
Berlin, 1910; 2nd edition, 1922.
- Die Paralysie agitans. Berlin, 1911.
- Die Tabes der Frauen. With E. Tobias. Berlin, 1912.
- Torsionsdystonie. Berlin, 1919.
- Intermittierende Hinken. Berlin, 1921.
- Nervöse und psychische Störungen bei Polycythämie.
Berlin, 1925.
- Nervenkrankheiten.
Handbuch der sozialen Hygiene; volume 2. Berlin, 1926.
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