|
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
|
|
|
Waardenburg-Jonkers disease
Associated persons:
Garrit Hendrik Jonkers
Petrus Johannes Waardenburg
Description:
Progressive corneal dystrophy in young infants, with eye irritation episodes, progressive impairment of vision, and reduction of corneal sensitivity. After irritation minute dots appear in the parenchyma, resembling snowflakes or hailstones, which tend to occupy the entire surface of the cornea. The dots last a few days and disappear spontaneously without therapy. Both sexes affected; present from first year of life. Transmitted as a dominant trait
Bibliography:
- P. J. Waardenburg, G. H. Jonkers:
A specific type of dominant progressive dystrophy of the cornea, developing after birth.
Acta Ophthalmologica, Copenhagen, 1961, 39: 919-923.
|
|
|
