Maurice Klippel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French physician
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Place of Birth: Mulhouse, Grand Est, France
About Maurice Klippel
- Maurice Klippel (30 May 1858 – 20 July 1942) was a French physician for whom the conditions Klippel-Feil syndrome and Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome are named. He was born in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin and studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1889.
- In 1902 he became director of a department of general medicine at the Hôpital Tenon, where he remained until his retirement in 1924.
- He published articles on a wide array of medical topics, his best known written works being in the fields of neurology and psychiatry.
- His treatises on cerebral syphilis, tumors and abscesses were published in Brouardel and Gilbert's Traité de médecine (1901).
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