Siegfried Oberndorfer
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Siegfried Oberndorfer was a German physician and pathologist.
Oberndorfer studied medicine in Munich
and Kiel
and Ph.D in 1900 in Munich and habilitated in pathological anatomy in 1906 also in Munich. From 1910 he was the head of Pathology Department of the hospital in Munich-Schwabing.
In 1907 he introduced the medical term carcinoid
(German: Karzinoide) that is still in use until the present day.
Oberndorfer studied medicine in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
and Kiel
Kiel
Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...
and Ph.D in 1900 in Munich and habilitated in pathological anatomy in 1906 also in Munich. From 1910 he was the head of Pathology Department of the hospital in Munich-Schwabing.
In 1907 he introduced the medical term carcinoid
Carcinoid
Carcinoid is a slow-growing type of neuroendocrine tumor, originating in the cells of the neuroendocrine system.In 2000, the World Health Organization redefined "carcinoid", but this new definition has not been accepted by all practitioners. This has led to some complexity in distinguishing...
(German: Karzinoide) that is still in use until the present day.
Publications
- Karzinoide Tumoren des Dünndarmes. Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Pathologie, 1907, 1: 426-429.
- Pathologisch-anatomische Situsbilder der Bauchhöhle. In: Lehman’s Medizinische Atlanten, Munich, 1922.
- Die Geschwülste des Darmes. In: Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie, Band 4,3, Berlin, 1929.
- Prostata, Hoden, Geschwülste. In: Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie, Band 6, Berlin, 1931.
Further reading
- Irwin M. Modlin, Michael D. Shapiro, Mark Kidd: Siegfried Oberndorfer: Origins and perspectives of carcinoid tumors. Human pathology, Philadelphia, 2004, 35 (12): 1440-1451.
- M. L. Corman and A. Khoynezhad: Siegfried Oberndorfer. In: M.L. Corman: Colon and Rectal Surgery. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2005: 1091.
- Joachim Thomas Katz: Leben und Werk der Pathologen Prof. Dr. Siegfried Oberndorfer, erster Chefarzt der Pathologie am Krankenhaus München-Schwabing. Book, 2005.
- Joachim Katz: Leben und Werk des Pathologen Siegfried Oberndorfer (1876-1944), Vorstand des Pathologischen Instituts am Krankenhaus München-Schwabing. Dissertation, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2006.
External links
- Siegfried Oberndorfer @ Who Named ItWho Named ItWho Named It? is an English-language dictionary of medical eponyms and the people associated with their identification. Though this is a dictionary, many eponyms and persons are presented in extensive articles with comprehensive bibliographies. It is hosted in Norway and maintained by medical...
- Siegfried Oberndorfer in Pathology Department of LMU München