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Moshe Wolman
Israeli neuropathologist, born 1914, Warsaw, Poland.
Associated eponyms:
Wolman's disease
A rare, inborn metabolic disorder (lipidosis) in which infants develop hepatosplenomegaly, calcification of the adrenal glands, and foam cells in the bone marrow and other tissues.
Biography:
Moshe Wolman attended the universities of Florence and Rome, graduating M.D. from Rome in 1938. In 1964 he became professor and chairman of pathology at the University of Tel-Aviv. Wolman is a pioneer in histochemistry.
Bibliography:
Moshe Wolman, editor:
- The Healing and Scarring of Atheroma.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, New York, 1984, volume 168.
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