Greenfield Sluder

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Greenfield Sluder (born August 30, 1865 - October 9, 1928 in St. Louis ) was an American laryngologist .

Career

Sluder studied medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and received his doctorate in 1888. He deepened his studies in Vienna, Berlin and London. From 1896 to 1906 he was a lecturer in laryngology at Washington University, then head of the department of laryngology and nasal medicine at Washington University Medical School.

The sluder operation and sluder neuralgia (also sluder syndrome) are named after him.

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