Medical eponyms: Time for a name change

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1499-1500

  Mora, Borja ^a   Bosch, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; AWARDS AND PRIZES; HISTORY; HUMAN; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

AWARDS AND PRIZES; EPONYMS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; GRANULOMATOSIS WITH POLYANGIITIS;

EID: 77956936986     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.281     Document Type: Note

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