Maurice Klippel

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Maurice Klippel
Klippel–Trénaunay–Weber syndrome

Maurice Klippel (30 May 1858 – 20 July 1942) was a French physician, for whom the conditions

Klippel–Trénaunay–Weber syndrome
are named.

He was born in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin and studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1889. In 1902, he became director of a department of general medicine at the Hôpital Tenon, where he remained until his retirement in 1924.

He published articles on a wide array of medical topics, his best known written works being in the fields of

abscesses were published in Brouardel and Gilbert's Traité de médecine (1901).[1]

References

  1. Who Named It

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