Kostmann's disease or severe hereditary neutropenia-the man behind the syndrome.

Ann Hematol

Department of Pediatrics and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Norrköping Hospital, Linköping University, SE-60182, Norrköping, Sweden.

Published: October 2020

Seventy years ago, the Swedish pediatrician Rolf Kostmann (1909-1982) was the first to report on a previous unknown lethal hereditary neutropenia in infants, Kostmann's disease. This essay presents the man behind the syndrome rather than focusing on the disease itself.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7481155PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00277-020-04142-yDOI Listing

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