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The first to describe the disease was Jaksche-Wartenhorst from the Faculty of Medicine of the German University in Prague, in 1923 [1], who called it polychondropathy. Later the disease was referred to as systemic chondromalacia, panchondritis, chronic atrophic polychondritis, and rheumatic chondritis. The most fitting term for this disease was introduced by Pearson in 1960 who called it relapsing polychondritis (RP).
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Rovenský, J., Sedláčková, M. (2017). Relapsing Polychondritis. In: Rovenský, J. (eds) Gerontorheumatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31169-2_10
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