- Konstantin Tretiakoff
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name = Konstantin Tretiakoff
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birth_date =December 26 ,1892
birth_place =Fergana ,Uzbekistan
death_date = 1958
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nationality = Russian
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field =Neuropathology
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known_for =Parkinson's disease
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religion = |footnotes = |Konstantin Tretiakoff (December 26, 1892 – 1958) was a Russian
neuropathologist . He was born inFergana ,Uzbekistan , as a son of military physician, member ofPierre Bonvalot 's firstPamir expedition. He studied medicine in L'Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris. He received his doctorate in 1919. In his thesis he described degeneration ofsubstantia nigra associated withparalysis agitans (Parinson's disease); Tretiakof was first to link this anatomic structure with parkinsonism. Between 1922 and 1926 Tretiakoff worked inBrasil . In 1931 he was appointed Chairman to the new Department of Neuropathology at the Medical Institute inSaratov , USSR, where he spend rest of his life.References
* Lees AJ, Selikhova M, Andrade LA, Duyckaerts C. The black stuff and Konstantin Nikolaevich Tretiakoff. Mov Disord. 23, 6, 777-783. 2008. doi:10.1002/mds.21855. PMID 18383531.
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coauthors=Selikhova Marianna, Andrade Luiz Augusto, Duyckaerts Charles
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title=The black stuff and Konstantin Nikolaevich Tretiakoff
journal=Mov. Disord.
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issue=6
pages=777-83
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