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Leonard O. Langer Jr.
US radiologist, born 1928, Minnesota.
Associated eponyms:
Langer's syndrome
Hereditary skeletal dysplasia of short-limbed dwarfism with mesomelic micromelia, hypoplasia of ulna, fibula and hypoplastic mandibula.
Langer-Giedion syndrome
Syndrome characterized by a combination of mental retardation and a long list of physical abnormalities, including multiple extoses, peculiar facies, and loose redundant skin.
Langer-Saldino syndrome
A lethal form of neonatal dwarfism.
Biography:
Leonard O. Langer Jr. graduated in medicine 1953 and trained in radiology at the University of Michigan. He entered private practice in 1966 and a decade later became a professor of radiology at the University of Wisconsin. Holding academic posts in Pittsburg and Minneapolis, Langer acted as a medical advisor for the Little People of America (an organisation for persons of small stature) and established a bone dysplasia registry at the University of Minnesota Hospital. In 1984 Langer entered private radiological practice in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a co-author of the class atlas Bone Dysplasias.
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