Johannes "Jan" Laurentius Augustinus Peutz (24 March 1886 – 20 December 1957) was a Dutch

internist Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of th ...

. In 1921, he published a case report on a form of polyposis and pigmentation which was later named

Peutz–Jeghers syndrome Peutz–Jeghers syndrome (often abbreviated PJS) is an dominance (genetics), autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by the development of benign hamartomatous Polyp (medicine), polyps in the human gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal ...

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