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Erdheim-Chester disease en · PROPN

Etymology

The first case was reported by the American pathologist William Chester in 1930, during his visit to the Austrian pathologist Jakob Erdheim in Vienna.

Meanings

  1. polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis, a rare disease characterized by the abnormal multiplication of histiocytes.