Volume 13, Number 5—May 2007

Historical Review

Rudolf Virchow and the Recognition of Alveolar Echinococcosis, 1850s

Dennis Tappe*  and Matthias Frosch*

Author affiliations: *University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;

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Figure 3

Figure 3. Reproduction of the beginning of Virchow’s original publication (3) of a case of hepatic multilocular echinococcosis and his proof that the disease was caused by an Echinococcus sp.

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