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Leaders in Musculoskeletal Diseases: Christian Georg Schmorl (1861-1932)
Filip M Vanhoenacker1,2,3
1Department of Radiology and Antwerp University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology
|July 10, 2026
Abstract:
This history page in the series "Leaders in Musculoskeletal Radiology" is dedicated to the achievements and memory of the German pathologist Christian Georg Schmorl. He was a pioneer in radiopathologic correlation of spinal diseases, and his name is connected with the medical eponym Schmorl's node of the spine.
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