Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Let·ter·er–Si·we disease Pronunciation:
'let-&r-&r-'sE-v&- Function:
noun : an acute disease of childrencharacterized by fever, hemorrhages, and other evidences of a disturbance in the reticuloendothelial system and by severe bone lesions especially of the skull
Letterer, Erich(b 1895), German physician. Letterer first described Letterer-Siwe disease in 1924. The author of several textbooks on pathology, he described the disease from the viewpoint of apathologist.
Siwe, Sture August (1897–1966), Swedish pediatrician. Siwe presented another, independent description of Letterer-Siwe disease in 1933, this time from theclinical point of view.
