Siegfried Oberndorfer

Siegfried Oberndorfer

Siegfried Oberndorfer
Born 24 June 1876
Munich
Died 1944
Istanbul
Fields physician
pathologist
Known for carcinoid

Siegfried Oberndorfer (24 June 1876 in Munich – 1944 in Istanbul) was a German physician and pathologist.

Oberndorfer studied medicine in Munich and Kiel and Ph.D in 1900 in Munich and habilitated in pathological anatomy in 1906 also in Munich. From 1910 he was the head of Pathology Department of the hospital in Munich-Schwabing.

In 1907 he introduced the medical term carcinoid (German: Karzinoide) that is still in use until the present day.[1]

References

  1. Soga, Jun (Nov 2009). "The life of S. Oberndorfer: the proposer of the term "carcinoid"--the outcome of a seed in the past 100 years". Nippon Rinsho (in Japanese). Japan. 67 (11): 2201–6. ISSN 0047-1852. PMID 19899541.

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