Tag: Siegfried Oberndorfer

The doctor who first classified Neuroendocrine Tumours as a separate entity.

Siegfried Oberndorfer studied medicine in Munich and Kiel and Ph.D in 1900 in Munich and habilitated in pathological anatomy in 1906 also in Munich. From 1910 he was the head of Pathology Department of the hospital in Munich-Schwabing. In 1907 he introduced the medical term carcinoid (German: Karzinoide). He was in fact only looking at small intestine tumours.

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Carcinoid vs Neuroendocrine

By Ronny Allan Apr 20, 2024 41 Comments

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