Is Crohn's disease a rightly used eponym?
In 1932 Burrill B. Crohn, a gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City described, together with two surgical colleagues, a series of 14 patients with an inflammatory condition of the terminal ileum. All patients were operated on by Dr Albert Berg, the Chief Surgeon of the hospital,...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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