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Adrenal hemorrhage historical perspective

Introduction

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Overview

Overview

Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome is named after Rupert Waterhouse (1873–1958), an English physician, and Carl Friderichsen (1886–1979), a Danish pediatrician, who wrote papers on the syndrome, which had been previously described.[1][2]

References

References

  1. ↑ Waterhouse R (1911). “A case of suprarenal apoplexy”. Lancet. 1: 577&ndash, 8. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)60988-7.
  2. ↑ Friderichsen C (1918). “Nebennierenapoplexie bei kleinen Kindern”. Jahrb Kinderheilk. 87: 109&ndash, 25.

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