Waldenstrom's syndromes

摘要

Jan Costa Waldenstrom (1906–96)1 (Figure 1) had a distinguished medical background. His grandfather, Johan, was Professor of Internal Medicine in Uppsala and his father, Henning, was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in Stockholm. Jan was educated at the Universities of Uppsala and Cambridge, and he also studied organic chemistry in the laboratory of the pyrrol chemist and Nobel Prize winner Hans Fisher at the Technische Hochschyle, Munich. This background influenced his biochemical and metabolic approach to clinical medicine.