Michaelis-Gutmann body
Related people
Rounded lamellar basophilic inclusions in the cytoplasm containing calcium and iron seen in malacoplakia, a chronic infection characteristically in the renal tract. These inclusions are calcium and iron laden lyssosomes in large mononuclear cells called Hansemann’s Macrophages. Michaelis and Gutmann described malacoplakia in the urinary tract in 1902.
What is an eponym?
An eponym is a word derived from the name of a person, whether real or fictional. A medical eponym is thus any word related to medicine, whose name is derived from a person.What is Whonamedit?
Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.Disclaimer:
Whonamedit? 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.