Eponym
It is named after Guido Fanconi, a Swiss pediatrician; this may be a misnomer, since Fanconi himself never identified it as a syndrome; though, as in the case of Goodpasture's syndrome, it is customary to name a syndrome after the first person to note a constellation of symptoms as occurring together.
It should not be confused with Fanconi anemia, a separate disease.
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