Pierre Eugène Ménétrier
Biography
- Born 7 December 1859
- 1924 – President of the French Society for the History of Medicine
- Membre de l’Académie nationale de médecine
- Died 22 August 1935 following a car accident in Lisieux
Medical Eponyms
- Maladie de Ménétrier (1888) – rare disorder characterized by massive overgrowth of mucous cells (foveola) in the mucous membrane lining the stomach, resulting in large gastric folds. [NORD]
Major Publications
- Ménétrier P. Des polyadénomes gastriques et de leurs rapports avec le cancer de l’estomac [Gastric polyadenomas and their relationship to stomach cancer]. Archives de physiologie normale et pathologique. 1888;1:32-55 and 236–262
References
- Coffey RJ Jr, Tanksley J. Pierre Ménétrier and his disease. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 2012;123:126-33 [PMC3540591]
- Ménétrier, Pierre. BIU Santé
- Menetrier Disease. NORD
- Rippey J. Ultrasound Case 062. LITFL
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