VIDEO: What’s in a name? The pathologist behind Zenker’s diverticulum

In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, MD, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses the origin of Zenker’s diverticulum.According to Mergener, the condition is named after pathologist Friedrich Albert Zenker, who was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1825. After completing medical school at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg, Zenker trained in pathology with Carl von Rokitansky before being appointed professor of pathology and department chair at Erlangen University.Zenker’sRead More