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George Baehr
American physician, 1887–1978
Associated eponyms:
Brill-Symmers disease
A lymphoma characterized by the combined proliferation of lymphoblasts and reticulum cells within lymphoid follicles, resulting in an increase in the number and size of germinal follicles.
Moschowitz' disease
A congenital syndrome characterised by thrombocytopenia, purpura, haemolytic anaemia, hyaline thromboses, renal failure and neurological symptoms.
Biography:
Bibliography:
- Paul Klemperer, G. Baehr, and A. D. Pollack:
Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.
Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1942, 119: 331-332.
Klemperer, Pollack and Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.
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