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. 2019 Oct;41(10):1117-1118.
doi: 10.1007/s00276-019-02232-9. Epub 2019 Apr 1.

Poland syndrome before Alfred Poland: the oldest medical description (Paris, France, 1803)

Philippe Charlier  1   2 , Saudamini Deo  1 , Francesco Maria Galassi  3 , Nadia Benmoussa  4   5
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Poland syndrome before Alfred Poland: the oldest medical description (Paris, France, 1803)

Philippe Charlier et al. Surg Radiol Anat. 2019 Oct.

Abstract

Here, we present a description of Poland syndrome from the second session of the Anatomical Society (Paris, France) on 11 December 1803 of congenital mammary absence and muscular atrophy on the right side. This case report predates the first official description of the disease published by Alfred Poland in Guy's Hospital Reports (London, 1841). Consequently, perhaps would it be necessary to do justice to its French discoverer, and to name from now on this nosological entity the "syndrome of Marandel"?

Keywords: Anatomical anomaly; Congenital malformation; Medical anthropology; Retrospective diagnosis.

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