Rokitansky and his first description of polyarteritis nodosa

Tesař, Vladimír
Kazderová, Markéta
Hlaváčková, Ludmila

¹1st Department of Medicine
²Institute for the History of Medicine, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague -Czech Republic

Address for correspondence:

Vladimír Tesař, M.D. First Department of Medicine First Medical Faculty Charles University Prague, Czech Republic[email protected]

Journal of Nephrology 17(1):p 172-174, January-February 2004.

ABSTRACT:

Karl Rokitansky, professor of Pathology at the University of Vienna described polyarteritis nodosa in 1852 in a 23-year-old man with a 5-day history of fever and diarrhoea.