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HIRSCHSPRUNG, Harald (1830 – 1916)

HIRSCHSPRUNG, Harald (1830 – 1916)

1830 – 1916

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1876 CE

#6357.55

Et Tilfaelde af Subakut Tarminvagination.

Discouraged by the high mortality of intussusception, Hirschsprung instituted a plan of controlled hydrostatic pressure reduction. By 1905 he was able to present a 35 per cent mortality based on 107 personal cases in …

1887 CE–1888 CE

#3489

Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.

Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).

1888 CE

#3489.1

Fälle von angeborener Pylorusstenose, beobachtet bei Säuglingen.

Hirschsprung first made the medical world aware of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis as a distinct clinical entity. In this paper he made no suggestions concerning therapy.