|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Donovan James McCune
American paediatrician, 1902-1976.
Associated eponyms:
Jaffe-Lichtenstein syndrome
A monostotic form of fibrous dysplasia of bone.
McCune-Albright syndrome
A rare congenital developmental disorder beginning in childhood or early adolescence, combining polystotic fibrous dysplasia of the bone, café-au-lait pigmentation of the skin, and endocrine disorders.
Biography:
Donovan James McCune qualified in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in 1928. At the time when he published his account of the McCune-Albright syndrome he was a paediatrician at Columbia University, New York.
Bibliography:
- E. H. Quimby and D. J. McCune.
Uptake of Radioactive Iodine by the Normal and Disordered Thyroid Gland in Children.
Radiology, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1974, 49: 201-205.
|
|
|
