Louis Lichtenstein
Louis Lichtenstein (born July 19, 1906 in New York City , † October 28, 1977 in Palm Springs (California) ) was an American bone pathologist.
Life
Lichtenstein graduated magna cum laude from City College of New York in 1925 . He received his MD in 1929 from Yale University . A fellowship brought him into pathology at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York) , where he stayed for five years. When he was in 1934/35 at the Charity Hospital (New Orleans) , he took a position as a pathology teacher at Louisiana State University . At that time he published seven papers on Niemann-Pick disease and chronic kidney failure , the phosphorus cycle and lymphogranuloma venereum . He devoted himself more and more to bone diseases. During his 12 years at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York, he worked with Henry Lewis Jaffe . 16 publications dealt with bones and joints. Over the next 29 years, two textbooks and 20 papers appeared in Cancer , The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery , The New England Journal of Medicine, and The American Journal of Pathology . He recognized new entities such as the Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis .
He was a consultant in bone tumors at the California Tumor Tissue Registry and in pathology at Los Angeles County Hospital and City of Hope National Medical Center . He was a clinical professor of pathology at the University of California and was under contract with several hospitals in San Francisco (Children's Hospital, St. Josephs's, Mt. Zion). He was a consultant at Naval Hospital Oakland and in radiology at Stanford University . He has given lectures in Madrid, Mexico, Bologna, Rome, Istanbul, Japan (Okayama, Kyoto, Tokyo), Guatemala and Israel. With Jakob Erdheim , Fritz Schajowicz and David Dahlin (1917–2003) he was one of the great (Jewish) bone pathologists. He was not a prolific writer and his writing is unlikely to find imitation among German doctors:
"His writings were lucid, brilliant, comprehensive and original."
Memberships and honors
- Royal College of Pathologists of Australia
- Sociedad Española de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología
- International Skeletal Society
- Western Orthopedic Society
- Professor Extraordinario of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Books
- Bone Tumors , 5th edition. Mosby, St. Louis 1977. ISBN 978-0801630057 .
- Diseases of Bone and Joints , 2nd edition. Mosby, St. Louis 1975. ISBN 978-0801630071 .
literature
- Walter Miller: Louis Lichtenstein, MD American Journal of Clinical Pathology (1978), p. 656. Online version
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lichtenstein, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pathologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1977 |
| Place of death | Palm Springs (California) |