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Landsteiner-Fanconi-Andersen syndrome (Dorothy Hansine Andersen)

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Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas. May be the same as Clarke-Hadfield syndrome.

Bibliography

  • K. Landsteiner:
    Darmverschluss durch eingedicktes Meconium; Pankreatitis. Centralblatt für allgemeine Pathologie und pathologische Anatomie, 1905, 16: 903-907.
  • G. Fanconi, E. Uehlinger, C. Knauer:
    Das Coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zystischer Pankreasfibromatose und bronchiektasien. Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1936, 86: 753-756.
  • D. H. Andersen:
    Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease.
    American Journal of Diseases of Children, Chicago, 1938, 56: 344-399.
  • D. H. Andersen:
    Studies on glycogen disease with a report of a case in which the glycogen was abnormal.
    In V. A. Najjar: Carbohydrate Metabolism, pp 28-42. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1952.

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