John Kelso Ormond
John Kelso Ormond (born March 25, 1886 in Princeton , Mercer County , New Jersey , † February 25, 1978 in Ann Arbor , Washtenaw County , Michigan ) was an American urologist . It gained importance through the description of retroperitoneal fibrosis in 1948, also known as Albarran-Ormond syndrome or Ormond's disease.
John Kelso Ormond was the son of Alexander Thomas Ormond (1847-1915), Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at State University in Minnesota and later at Princeton University , and Mary Huston (nee Simons).
Works
- JK Ormond: Bilateral ureteral obstruction due to envelopment and compression by an inflammatory retroperitoneal process. In: The Journal of Urology . 59, 1948, pp. 1072-1079.
- JK Ormond: Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: a discussion of the etiology. In: The Journal of Urology. 94, 1965, pp. 385-390.
literature
- American Universities Medical Research Publications, Inc .: International who's who in world medicine 1947. American Universities Medical Research Publications, New York 1947, p. 521.
- Who's who in Wisconsin: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the Commonwealth, Volume One. Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Chicago 1947, p. 84.
- Institute for Research in Biography (New York, NY): American Men of Medicine. Institute for Research in Biography, Incorporated, New York, NY 1952, p. 740.
- Who Was Who in America. : Volume VII, 1977–1981 with world notables . Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill. 1981, p. 438.
Web links
- John Kelso Ormond on the Whonamedit? - A dictionary of medical eponyms
- John Kelso Ormond on the Prabook.org website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ormond, John Kelso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American urologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Princeton , Mercer County , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1978 |
| Place of death | Ann Arbor , Washtenaw County , Michigan |