Pathology of Atomic Bomb Casualties
Ann Arbor, MI: The American Journal of Pathology, 1949. Reprint from The American Journal of Pathology, 1949, Vol. XXV, No. 5. Wraps. 853-1027, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (some with color). Stamp of previous owner, Donald J. Kimeldorf (of the Naval Radiological Laboratory), on front cover. Stamp and ink marks to front cover. Averill Abraham Liebow, born in Austria, was the "founding father" of pulmonary pathology in the United States. He started his career as a pathologist at Yale, where he remained for many years. In 1968 he moved to the University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, where he taught as Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology. His studies include classic studies of lung diseases. Best known of these is his famous classification of interstitial lung disease. He also published papers on sclerosing pneumocytoma, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, meningothelial-like nodules, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, lymphomatoid granulomatosis, pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma and pulmonary hyalinizing granuloma . As a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Medical Corps, He was a member of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission who studied the effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More