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Landouzy's syndrome
Also known as:
Landouzy's ischias
Associated persons:
Domenico Felice Antonio Cotugno
Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy
Description:
Eponym used to indicate the secondary muscular atrophy caused by sciatica.
See also Cotugno’s syndrome (sciatic neuritis), under Domenico Felice Antonio Cotugno, Italian physician, 1736-1822.
Bibliography:
- J. T. Landouzy:
De la sciatique et de l’atrophie musculair qui peut la compliquer. Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1875, 25: 303-325.
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