Mandl

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Felix Mandl. (Reprinted from [15], Copyright 2000, with permission from Elsevier) Early Life and Training Felix Mandl M.D. son of industrialist Emil Mandl and Linda Basch Mandl, was born on…

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Wolff and Israel L. Chaikoff

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Dr. Jan Wolff (April 25, 1925). Photo of young Dr. Wolff in laboratory Born in Germany, Dr. Wolff was displaced to Holland at a young age as Hitler came into…

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Richard Farndon

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Professor John Richard Farndon John Richard Farndon’s parents were married in 1939 and lived in a rented back-to-back flat in the Tinsley area of Sheffield. This home was destroyed in…

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Stanley Plummer

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Henry Plummer, photographed at age 26, soon after graduating with his medical degree from Northwestern University and just before being recruited by the Mayo doctors. (By Permission of the Mayo…

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Hyperparathyroidism: Diagnosis and Workup

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37. Harari A, Zarnegar R, Lee J, Kazam E, Inabnet WB 3rd, Fahey TJ 3rd. Computed tomography can guide focused exploration in select patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and negative sestamibi…

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Lahey

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Portrait of Frank Lahey, MD. (Courtesy of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center) Early Life Frank Lahey was born in Massachusetts to first-generation Irish immigrants in 1880 [1]. Lahey’s grandparents were…

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von Basedow

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Karl Adolph von Basedow. Fig. 1 Map of Germany, indicating Dessau, von Basedow’s hometown, and Merseburg, the town where he practiced as a family physician and was laid to rest…

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Goiter

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Fig. 1 Pt with visible but asymptomatic cervical multinodular goiter. Grade 3 by World Health Organization goiter classification system World Health Organization (WHO) Grading of Thyroid Goiter Grade 0: No…

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de Quervain

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Fritz de Quervain, MD Fritz de Quervain is regarded as one of the last surgical giants, and his obituary appeared in Nature after his death on January 24, 1940 [1]….

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