Category LITFL
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Pel-Ebstein fever

Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1885 – Pieter Klazes Pel first described this phenomenon in Berliner klinische Wochenschrift. A 25-year-old paper maker died after a four-month illness, in which five 10-30 day episodes of fever, each…

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Ekbom syndrome II

Ekbom syndrome or delusional parasitosis is characterised by delusions, symptoms of formication and signs such as self-mutilation or the matchbox-sign

Oskar Kobyliński

Carl Oscar Alexander von Kobyliński (1856 - 1926) was a Polish-Baltic German general practitioner. First description of Noonan syndrome (1893)