Rokitansky & Aschoff of the Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses
2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 120; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0016-5085(01)87955-5
ISSN1528-0012
Autores Tópico(s)Restraint-Related Deaths
ResumoKarl von Rokitansky (1804–1878) was born in Königgratz, Bohemia, and was educated first at Prague and then obtained his M.D. degree at Vienna where at age 30 he became professor of pathology and leader of the illustrious triumvirate that included Skoda and von Heber. As a consequence of urging Emperor Joseph II to decree that all Austrian citizens who died would be subject to necropsy, he officiated at nearly 60,000 postmortem examinations, all of which he meticulously described in gracefully composed reports—a record that still stands. By his colleagues he was regarded as a jovial and highly esteemed teacher. In addition to observing in 1842 the cryptic sinuses that mark chronic cholecystitis (redescribed by Aschoff in 1905), he was the first to distinguish lobar and lobular pneumonia, as well as to describe acute yellow atrophy of the liver. He coined the term “spondylolisthesis.” Carl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942) was born in Berlin and obtained his M.D. degree at Bonn. He proudly bore duelling scars as evidence of loyalty to his Burschenshaft (student fraternity). At Marburg, with his Japanese pupil Sunao Tawara, he described the atrioventricular node and, later at Freiburg, the rheumatoid nodules in the myocardium that became known as “Aschoff bodies.” His Handbook of Pathologic Anatomy reached its 8th edition in 1935. His death was attributed to bronchial asthma from which he had suffered for many years.
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