Charles Gandy
Encyclopedia
Charles Gandy was a French
physician
remembered for Gandy-Gamna nodules
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France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
remembered for Gandy-Gamna nodules
Gandy-Gamna nodules
Gandy-Gamna nodules or Gandy-Gamna bodies are small yellow-brown, brown or rust-coloured foci found in the spleen in patients with splenomegaly due to portal hypertension and sickle cell disease. They consist of fibrous tissue with haemosiderin deposits, and probably form due to scarring at sites...
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