Leopold von Schrötter

Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli, (name often given as Leopold von Schrötter in medical literature) (February 5, 1837 - April 22, 1908) was an Austrian internist and laryngologist who was born in Graz. He received his medical doctorate in 1861 from the University of Vienna, and afterwards became an assistant to Josef Škoda (1805-1881) in Vienna. Later he was appointed to the chair at the newly created clinic for laryngology. He was the son of chemist Anton Schrötter von Kristelli and father to physician Hermann Schroetter-Kristelli (1870-1928).

Along with his work in the field of laryngology, Kristelli is also remembered with his work involving diseases of the chest. Among his written works is a contribution concerning heart diseases in Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's (1829-1902) "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie". Along with British surgeon James Paget (1814-1899), the eponymous Paget-Schrötter disease is named. This disorder involves primary thrombosis of the axillary vein or subclavian vein.

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