TY  - JOUR
T1  - NIels stensen
AU  - Waltz GW
Y1  - 1979/06/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290500013006
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2599
EP  - 2599
VL  - 241
IS  - 24
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    I would like to take this opportunity to make two additional comments to the informative biographical sketch of Niels Stensen (Nicolaus Steno) by Robert A. Kyle, MD, and Marc A. Shampo, PhD (241:375,1979). I think it is of interest that according to Helen Taussig, MD, it was Niels Stensen (1671) who is credited with the first reported case of the congenital malformation commonly known as the tetralogy of Fallot.1 This was more than 200 years before Etienne Fallot published his work on the congenital complex that now bears his name.I came to recognize the second idea I wish to point out following discussions with Drs Joseph Foley and John Conomy concerning the incidence of spinal cord infarction following infrarenal aortic surgery. The incidence of such ischemic events has been described and emphasized.2,3 However, it was Niels Stensen4 who developed an experimental model from
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290500013006
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290500013006
ER  -