Kohlmeier Walter

(¤ 1908, died 1953) pathologist) Walter Köhlmeier was an Austrian anatomical pathologist, born in 1908 and died on November 9, 1963. Walter Köhlmeier was professor and prosector of the polyclinic at the municipal hospital in Vienna Langegasse 71.

The name Köhlmeier continues to be known through the first publication in 1941 of the vascular multisystem disease known as "papulosis maligna atrophicans" by R. Degos 1 year later. Walter Köhlmeier described "multiple skin necroses in thrombangitis obliterans." This disease is now known as "Köhlmeier-Degos disease".

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1. Köhlmeier W (1941) Multiple skin necroses in thrombangitis obliterans. Arch Dermatol Syph 181: 783-792.
2. Köhlmeier, W. (1944) Virchow's Arch. path. Anat. 312, 26 (1944).Köhlmeier, W. et al. (1949) European blastomycosis. Wien Klin Wochenschr 61:110.
3. Köhlmeier, W. et al. (1951) A case of mycetoma pedis (madura foot) in Vienna. Klin Med Osterr Z Wiss Prakt Med 6:337-342.
4. Köhlmeier, W. et al (1953) Actinomycosis endocarditis. Wien Klin Wochenschr 65:25-28.
6. Köhlmeier, W. (1958) Fungal disease of the epididymis and testis. Wien Klin Wochenschr 70:299-301.