Bernd Walter Scheithauer

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Bernd Walter Scheithauer (born August 30, 1946 in Gelenau ; † September 19, 2011 in Rochester (Minnesota) ) was an important German-American neuropathologist .

Life

Bernd W. Scheithauer was born in 1946 to Walter and Renate Scheithauer in Gelenau, Saxony , and grew up in Eureka (California) . After graduating from Humboldt State College in Arcata , he studied medicine at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine . He completed residency and fellowship as a clinical pathologist and neuropathologist at the Medical Center of Stanford University in Palo Alto . In 1979 he began his work in the Department of Anatomical Pathology and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he was Professor of Pathology for many years .

Bernd Walter Scheithauer died on September 19, 2011 at the age of 65.

plant

Scheithauer was the author of numerous textbooks on neuropathology, played a key role in the creation of the WHO classification of tumors of the central nervous system and was involved in over 700 publications, particularly on the neuropathology of brain tumors .

literature

  • Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Tumors; Ed. Kamal Thapar; Ed. Kalman Kovacs; Edited by Bernd Scheithauer; Edited by Ricardo V. Lloyd, Humana Press Totowa 2000, 496 pages, ISBN 978-0-89603-403-7
  • Caterina Giannini: In memoriam: Bernd Walter Scheithauer (1946-2011). In: Acta neuropathologica. [electronic publication before going to press] November 2011, ISSN  1432-0533 . doi : 10.1007 / s00401-011-0917-9 . PMID 22116261 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Bernd W. Scheithauer, 65, died Monday, at Ranfranz & Vine Funeral Home, September 19, 2011 Rochester, MN. ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ranfranzandvinefh.com
personal data
SURNAME Scheithauer, Bernd Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheithauer, Bernd W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neuropathologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Exactly
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2011
Place of death Rochester, Minnesota