Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy

ABSTRACT Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy described, for the first time, in 1912, novel peculiar inclusions in neurons of certain brain nuclei in patients with Paralysis agitans, and compared his finding to the amyloid bodies described by Lafora one year before. Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora studied one patient...

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Main Author: Eliasz Engelhardt
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Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
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spelling doaj-9271585037104bdc8ef63b669bcc4cb42020-11-24T21:02:19ZengAcademia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-4227751075175310.1590/0004-282x20170116S0004-282X2017001000751Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by LewyEliasz EngelhardtABSTRACT Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy described, for the first time, in 1912, novel peculiar inclusions in neurons of certain brain nuclei in patients with Paralysis agitans, and compared his finding to the amyloid bodies described by Lafora one year before. Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora studied one patient with Paralysis agitans, in 1913, and recognized, described, and depicted structures identical to those previously reported by Lewy. He was the first to acknowledge Lewy's finding, and also the first to name such inclusions after the discoverer – cuerpos intracelulares de Lewy (Lewy bodies). Konstantin Nikolaevich Trétiakoff named the inclusions he found in neurons of the substantia nigra of patients with Parkinson's disease as corps de Lewy (Lewy bodies), in 1919. Trétiakoff has unanimously received the credit for the eponym. However, Lafora's earlier description should make him deserving of the authorship of the eponym.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2017001000751&lng=en&tlng=enFritz Heinrich Jakob LewyGonzalo Rodriguez LaforaKonstantin Nikolaevich Tretiakoffinclusion bodiesLewy bodiesParalysis agitansParkinson disease
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Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy
Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora
Konstantin Nikolaevich Tretiakoff
inclusion bodies
Lewy bodies
Paralysis agitans
Parkinson disease
author_facet Eliasz Engelhardt
author_sort Eliasz Engelhardt
title Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
title_short Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
title_full Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
title_fullStr Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
title_full_unstemmed Lafora and Trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by Lewy
title_sort lafora and trétiakoff: the naming of the inclusion bodies discovered by lewy
publisher Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
series Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
issn 1678-4227
description ABSTRACT Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy described, for the first time, in 1912, novel peculiar inclusions in neurons of certain brain nuclei in patients with Paralysis agitans, and compared his finding to the amyloid bodies described by Lafora one year before. Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora studied one patient with Paralysis agitans, in 1913, and recognized, described, and depicted structures identical to those previously reported by Lewy. He was the first to acknowledge Lewy's finding, and also the first to name such inclusions after the discoverer – cuerpos intracelulares de Lewy (Lewy bodies). Konstantin Nikolaevich Trétiakoff named the inclusions he found in neurons of the substantia nigra of patients with Parkinson's disease as corps de Lewy (Lewy bodies), in 1919. Trétiakoff has unanimously received the credit for the eponym. However, Lafora's earlier description should make him deserving of the authorship of the eponym.
topic Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy
Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora
Konstantin Nikolaevich Tretiakoff
inclusion bodies
Lewy bodies
Paralysis agitans
Parkinson disease
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