Jacques Caroli

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Jacques Caroli (born May 21, 1902 in Les Essarts-le-Roi near Versailles , † 1979 in Paris ) was a French gastroenterologist . He studied medicine in Angers and started practicing there. After the Second World War he became chief physician at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris . In 1958 he first described a congenital disease with cystic enlargements of the bile ducts in the liver, which was later named after him as Caroli syndrome . In 1976 he was appointed commander of the French Legion of Honor .

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