Marchiafava-Bignami disease: why not Marchiafava-Bignami-Carducci disease?

Marianna Bugiani, Orso Bugiani

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Abstract

The Marchiafava-Bignami disease has a curious backstory, namely, the publication in 1898 of the Contribution to the Study of Nonsuppurative Encephalitis (Carducci A in Riv Psicol Psichiat Neuropat 8-9:125-135, 1898), in which the neo-graduate Agostino Carducci described the disease that the pathologists Ettore Marchiafava and Amico Bignami would report 5 years later.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2365-2366
Number of pages2
JournalNeurological sciences
Volume45
Issue number5
Early online date2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2024

Keywords

  • Gliosis
  • Marchiafava-Bignami disease
  • Pathologists

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