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Christian Baastrup

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (1885 – 1950) was a Danish radiologist. Described Baastrup disease (sign) (1933) Kissing spines sign

Sir Norman McAlister Gregg (1892-1966) was an Australian ophthalmologist

George Quentin Chance was an British radiologist. Eponymously associated with the Chance fracture (1948) transverse fracture through a vertebral body

Sir Frank Wild Holdsworth (1904 – 1969) was a British Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponym the Holdsworth fracture

Mario Bertolotti (1876-1957) was an Italian radiologist. Bertolotti syndrome (1917) L5 transverse processes and sacrum Sacralisation

Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (1865 – 1921) was a German radiologist. Albers-Schönberg disease (osteopetrosis, marble bone disease)

Douglas Theodore Prehn (1901 - 1974) was an American urologist

Mona Dew Roberts (1878-1936) was a Welsh General Practitioner and anaesthetist. Mona Roberts oropharyngeal airway (1916)

Robert Atwood Beaver (1906-1975) was an English Anaesthetist, artist and engineer known for his development of the Beaver Respirator

Louis Henri Vaquez (1860-1936) was a French physician and cardiologist. Described polycythaemia vera (Vaquez-Osler disease) in 1892

$Moore fracture 680$

Moore fracture (1870) of the distal end of the radius; luxation distal ulna; fracture ulna styloid. Edward Mott Moore (1814–1902) American Surgeon.

John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950) was an English physician and epidemiologist. Coined the phrase angor animi; and the Ryle nasogastric tube bears his name