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Czech eponyms in pathology


Authors: Ivo Šteiner
Authors‘ workplace: Fingerlandův ústav patologie LF UK a FN, Hradec Králové
Published in: Čes.-slov. Patol., 49, 2013, No. 1, p. 51-54
Category: Chapters from History

Overview

The 24th European Congress of Pathology taking place in Prague is an opportunity to remind our society of the Czech names appearing as eponyms in pathological terminology: Karel Rokitanský – R. protuberance in dermoid cyst; R. thrombogenic theory of atherosclerosis; Mayer – R. – Küster – Hauser – Winckel syndrome (congenital malformation of the vagina and uterus); Václav Treitz – T. duodenal ligament; T. retroperitoneal hernia; T. uremic colitis; Vilém Dušan Lambl – L. excrescences of heart valves; Lamblia (Giardia) intestinalis, and also the foundation of urological cytology; Stanislav Provázek – Prowazek – Halberstädter bodies (trachoma), Rickettsia Prowazeki (typhus fever); Josef Vaněk – V. tumor (gastric inflammatory fibroid polyp), and also discovery of the etiology of pneumocystic pneumonia; Otto Jírovec – Pneumocystis Jiroveci; Blahoslav Bednář – B. tumor (pigmented dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans).

Keywords:
Rokitansky – Treitz – Lambl – Prowazek – Vaněk – Jírovec – Bednář – history of pathology


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