The Central Cord Syndrome in Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Tumors: A 19th-Century Vignette from (Karl) Julius Vogel (1814–1880)

• DOI: 10.1055/a-1938-0132
• Publication Date: 2022-09-07T23:00:03Z
• Authors: Paolo Missori; Vito Chiarella; Simone Peschillo; Sergio Paolini; Antonio Currà
• Keywords: Male; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Neoplasms; Germany; Humans; Cervical Cord; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Central Cord Syndrome; 3. Good health

AbstractBetween 1830 and 1850, (Karl) Julius Vogel was one of the most important German pathologists. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1838 from the University of Munich and habilitation in pathology in 1840. In 1846, he moved to the University of Giessen as a full professor of pathology. From 1855, he taught special pathology and therapy at the University of Halle and became director of the internal clinic. Vogel and Heinrich Adolph Karl Dittmar were the first clinicians to describe the symptoms and pathologic findings of the central cord syndrome in a cervical spine tumor.