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ASCHOFF, Karl Albert Ludwig (1866 – 1942)

1866 – 1942

5 entries in the GMN corpus.

1904

#2816

Zur Myocarditisfrage.

In his work on rheumatic myocarditis, Aschoff described the characteristic lesion (Aschoff body or nodule) and presented a histopathological picture of myocarditis that was to exert a great influence on the classifica…

1908

#3572

Die Wurmfortsatzentzündung.

Aschoff’s theory of the enterogenous origin of appendicitis.

1909

#3645

Die Cholelithiasis.

1919

#3722

Der Skorbut.

1924

#562

Das reticulo-endotheliale System.

In an earlier paper on this subject (Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 1352-56) Aschoff introduced the term “reticulo-endothelial system”; as early as 1914 he grouped certain phagocytic cells into his system.