Maurice Goldenhar

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Maurice Goldenhar ( January 15, 1924 - September 11, 2001 ) was a Belgian - American ophthalmologist and general practitioner . He emigrated from Belgium to the United States in 1940. He later came back to Europe for medical studies and then returned to the USA.

In 1952 he was the first to describe a disease that was named Goldenhar Syndrome after him .

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  1. ↑ Goldenhar Syndrome . University of Louisiana-Shreveport.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lsuhscshreveport.edu  
  2. ↑ Sudarshan P. Gaurkar, Khushboo D. Gupta, Kirti S. Parmar, Bela J. Shah: Goldenhar Syndrome. A report of 3 cases . In: Indian Journal of Dermatology . tape 58 , no. 3 , 2013, ISSN  0019-5154 , p. 244 , doi : 10.4103 / 0019-5154.110876 , PMID 23723509 , PMC 3667321 (free full text).
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SURNAME Goldenhar, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-American ophthalmologist and general practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1924
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2001