Rokitansky and his first description of polyarteritis nodosa.
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.
Tesar
Vladimír
V
1st Department of Medicine, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. tesarv@beba.cesnet.cz
Kazderová
Markéta
M
Hlavácková
Ludmila
L
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