Vladimir Karlovich Roth (October 5, 1848 - January 6, 1916) — sometimes Vladimir Karlovich Rot — was a Russian neuropathologist.

Roth was native of Orel

Oryol

Oryol or Orel is a city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River, approximately south-southwest of Moscow...

. He studied medicine at the University of Moscow, where he graduated in 1871. From 1877 to 1879 he travelled abroad, and worked in clinics at Vienna

Vienna

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, Berlin

Berlin

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 and Paris

Paris

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. From 1881 until 1890 he was head of the department of nervous diseases at the Staro-Ekaterininskii hospital in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, where he also opened a school of nursing. In 1895 he attained the title of professor extraordinarius, and from 1902 to 1911, he held the chair of neurological diseases at Moscow University.

In 1895 Roth described meralgia paraesthetica

Meralgia paraesthetica

Meralgia paraesthetica , or meralgia paresthetica — also called Bernhardt-Roth syndrome — is numbness or pain in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh, but by injury to a nerve that extends from the thigh to the spinal column.This chronic neurological disorder involves a single...

(Bernhardt-Roth syndrome), which is characterized by numbness or pain in the outer thigh

Thigh

In humans the thigh is the area between the pelvis and the knee. Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb.The single bone in the thigh is called the femur...

, caused by an injury of the lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh

Lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh

The lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh is a cutaneous nerve that innervates the skin on the lateral part of the thigh.-Structure:...

. This condition is also known as "Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia", named in conjunction with German neuropathologist Martin Bernhardt

Martin Bernhardt

Martin Bernhardt was a noted German neuropathologist.Bernhardt was a native of Potsdam. In 1867 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Berlin, where he was a student of Rudolf Virchow and Ludwig Traube...

(1844–1915), who described the disorder independent of Roth.