Vladimir Karlovich Roth (5 October 1848 – 6 January 1916) — sometimes Vladimir Karlovich Rot — was a Russian Empire

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. Roth was native of Orel. He studied medicine at the

University of Moscow M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

, where he graduated in 1871. From 1877 to 1879 he traveled abroad, working in clinics at

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and

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. From 1881 until 1890, he served as head of the department of nervous diseases at the Staro-Ekaterininskii hospital in

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, where he also opened a school of

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. In 1895 he attained the title of "professor extraordinarius", and from 1902 to 1911, he held the chair of

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diseases at Moscow University. In 1895 Roth described ''

meralgia paraesthetica Meralgia paresthetica or meralgia paraesthetica is numbness or pain in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh, but by injury to a nerve that extends from the spinal column to the thigh. This chronic neurological disorder involve ...

'' (Bernhardt-Roth syndrome), a disease characterized by numbness or pain in the outer

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, caused by an injury of the

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. This condition is sometimes referred to as "Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia", named in conjunction with German neuropathologist

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(1844–1915), who described the disorder independent of Roth.

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Neurologists from the Russian Empire 1916 deaths 1848 births {{Russia-med-bio-stub