It was named after Leo Buerger who gave the first accurate pathological description in 1908.

Here is a useful link for more details about the disease: https://www.hopkinsvasculitis.org/types-vasculitis/buergers-disease/

Thanks Lamia

This disease was mentioned already by the late fifth century B.C. Greek historian Thucydides. In modern times it was first described in 1876 by the German pathologist and bacteriologist Carl Friedländer (1847-1887) as arteritis obliterans. Felix von Winiwarter in 1879 described a male patient aged 57. Burger described it in 1908, and later, in 1924, he published a monograph based on the material from 500 patients.

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Thrombangiitis oblitera