title: Karl Hürthle! Now, who was he?
abstract: The name Hürthle is used in medicine to designate a particular type of thyroid cell, mainly characterized by a granular and deeply eosinophilic cytoplasm. This article describes the life of Karl Hürthle (1860-1945) and the experiments he performed in the early 1890s to explore the morphology and function of the thyroid gland.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. pcat@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: Patrizio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Caturegli
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ruggere
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000266:history*; D011044:Poland; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000266:history*