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Roar Strøm
Norwegian physician, born March 31, 1903, Oslo (then Kristiania); died October 8, 1958.
Associated eponyms:
Strøm-Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
A clinical triad of 1) hypesecretion of gastrin, 2) multiple, atypically located, often recurrent peptic ulcers, and 3) a noninsulin producing islet cell tumor of the pancreas.
Biography:
Roar Strømgraduated in medicine from the University of Oslo in December, 1926, and was conferred doctor of medicine in 1943. He worked in several hospitals in southern Norway, including Rikshospitalet – the national research hospital in Oslo. In 1956, two years before his death, he became head physician at the Telemark county hospital, Skien.
Bibliography:
- Leber und vermehrte Schilddrüsenhormonen. Doctoral thesis, Oslo, 1943.
- Øivind Larsen, editor:
Norges leger. Den norske lægeforening. Oslo, 1996. Volume 5, page 248.
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