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Walter Karl Koch
German surgeon, born May 3, 1880, Dortmund.
Associated eponyms:
Koch's triangle (Walter Karl Koch)
A triangular shaped area in the right atrium of the heart.
Tawara's node
The atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle of His.
Biography:
Walter Karl Koch received his education at Freiburg im Breisgau and the Berlin Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie. He obtained his doctorate in 1907 at Freiburg, and as a military physician was posted at the Heidelberg pathological institute, at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie, and the II medical clinic in Berlin. Here he was habilitated for general pathology and pathological anatomy in 1921, nichtbeamtlicher Professor 1922, and subsequently worked as head of department at the Krankenhaus Westend. Koch became known for his work on the motor centres of the heart, and coined the term sinus node.
Bibliography:
- Über Skorbut. With Ludwig Aschoff (1866-1942).
Veröffentlichungen aus der Kriegs-, Gewerbe und Konstitutionspathologie, volume 1, 1; Jena, G. Fischer, 1919.
- Über die russisch-rumänische Kastratensekte der Skopzen. Jena, 1921.
- Der Funktionelle Bau des menschlichen Herzens. Berlin and Vienna, 1922.
- Thoraxschnitte von Erkrankungen der Brustorgane. Berlin, 1924.
- Missbildungen von Magen und Darm.
Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie, volume 4; Berlin, 1926.
- Anatomische Analyse des Röntgenbildschattens des Herzens.
With W. Wieck. Jena, 1930.
- Zusammenhangstrennungen, Lageveränderungen und Fremdkörper der Lunge- und Bronchien.
Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie, volume 3,2; Berlin, 1931.
- Trichloräthylenvergiftung.
Veröffentlichungen aus der Kriegs-, Gewerbe und Konstitutionspathologie, volume 7, 5; Jena, 1931.
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