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Enrico Bernardo Streiff
Swiss ophthalmologist, born 1908, Genoa.
Associated eponyms:
Hallermann-Streiff-François syndrome
A syndrome of multiple congenital abnormalities comprising an abnormally shaped skull, proportionate dwarfism, birdlike facies, atrophy of the skin, bilateral microphtalmia, mental retardation and congenital cataracts.
Biography:
Enrico Bernardo Streiff was the son of an oculist. After qualifying in medicine in he spent some ten years with Adolphe Franceschetti (1896-1968) at the University of Geneva. In 1944 he was appointed full professor at the University of Lausanne, where he also served as head of ophthalmology in the State Hospital. Streiff retired with emeritus status in 1968.
Streiff was co-publisher of the journal Ophthalmologica from 1954 to 1979. He was the editor of Advances in Ophthalmology, Lausanne Bibliotheca Ophthalmologica, 1954. He has published more than 250 papers in the fields of medical genetics, eye disease and the history of ophthalmology
Bibliography:
- Vo Van Toi, P. A. Grounauer and E. B. Streiff:
Ophtalmodynamographie pneumatique au biomicroscope.
(Ophthalmodynamography Pneumatic used with Biomicroscope)
Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde, 1980, 175, Heft, p. 619-624.
- P. A. Grounauer, Vo Van Toi and E. B. Streiff:
Vom perzeptiven Flicker zum macularen Erg durch sinusoidale Stimulation.
(From Flicker Perception to Macular ERG by Sinusoidal Stimulation)
Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde, 1977, 170, Heft 6, p. 8 21-823.
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