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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Historical Perspective

Buerger's disease was first reported by Felix Von Winiwater in 1879 in Germany.

It was described in detail by Leo Buerger in 1908 in New York, who called it presenile spontaneous gangrene after studying amputations in 11 patients.