Laza Lazarević
Lazar K. Lazarević (Лазаp К. Лазаревић) (1851 - 1891) was a Serbian psychiatrist, neurologist and writer
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Roy Glenwood Spurling
Col. Roy Glenwood Spurling (1894 – 1968) was an American neurosurgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Spurling manoeuvre or Spurling Test described in 1944 as a provocative test of the cervical spine in cervical radiculopathy
Holstein–Lewis fracture
Holstein–Lewis fracture: simple spiral fracture of the distal third of the shaft of humerus with distal bone fragment displaced and the proximal end deviated toward the radial side
Gwilym B. Lewis
Gwilym Bill Lewis (1914-2009) American Orthopedic Surgeon. With Arthur Holstein - eponymously affiliated with the Holstein–Lewis fracture (1963)
Arthur Holstein
Arthur Holstein (1913-2000) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon with Gwilym Lewis described the Holstein–Lewis fracture (1963)
Frederick Roeck Thompson
Frederick Roeck Thompson (1907–1983) was an American orthopedic surgeon. Developed a cemented vitallium prosthesis with a distinctive flared collar independent of Austin Moore.
Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen
Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen (1886 – 1953) was a Norwegian born, American Orthopaedic surgeon. Smith-Petersen Vitallium mould arthroplasty (1948)
Robert Garden
Robert Symon Garden (1910 - 1982) was a Scottish Orthopaedic surgeon. Garden classification of intracapsular femoral neck fractures
Martin Kirschner
Martin Kirschner (1879-1942) was a German surgeon. Significant contribution to general surgery; orthopaedic surgery; traumatology; anaesthesiology and pain therapy
Auenbrugger Bone Sign
Auenbrugger Bone sign (more commonly known as Heuter sign) may be used to define the presence of upper limb fracture or dislocation via osteophony.
Ultrasound Case 032
A 67 year old man has been unwell for 10 days. He had some right upper quadrant pain, fevers, and then in that last 3 days has had abdominal distension, vomiting and has stopped passing stool or flatus. You suspect bowel obstruction.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 089
In the 89th FFFF we find out how the Spanish health service intends to save 2 billion euros a year, what condition accounts for over 10 million courses of antibiotics each year in the US, as well as learn about a clever Dutch physiologist, ego bias and micromorts.