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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(6):1831-1833; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn107
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First description of polycystic kidney disease in a Portuguese journal

Edgar A. F. de Almeida and M. Martins Prata

Serviço de Nefrologia e Transplantação Renal, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Edgar A. F. de Almeida, Serviço de Nefrologia e Transplantação Renal, Hospital de Santa Maria, Av Prof. Egas Moniz, 1639-045 Lisboa, Portugal. Tel: +351-21-7805317; Fax: +351-217805679; E-mail: edealmeida@mail.telepac.pt, edgar.almeida@hsm.min-saude.pt

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The first description of polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in a Portuguese medical journal occurred in 1918 when Dr Custódio Cabeça published a manuscript in Medicina Contemporânea, a medical journal founded in 1883 by Dr Miguel Bombarda (1851–1910) and Dr Sousa Martins (1843–1897), two important teachers at the Medical School in Lisbon [1]. A reprint of the manuscript dedicated to his colleague, Professor Daniel de Mattos (1845–1921), who was the teacher of Surgery in Medical Faculty of the University of Coimbra, was found by manual searching in the files of the library of this institution (Figure 1). In this manuscript Dr Cabeça reported his experience in treating eight patients with PKD (two of whom he nephrectomised) and reviewed the current knowledge on the pathophysiology . . . [Full Text of this Article]



   Custódio Cabeça
 


   PKD in Portugal
 

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