Texidor’s Twinge
Also known as precordial catch syndrome (PCS), Texidor Twinge is a benign condition that causes brief episodes of localised musculoskeletal chest pain in children and young adults
Category Eponym
August Krogh
August Schack Steenberg Krogh (1874-1949) was a Danish physiologist and Nobel laureate who developed multiple apparatus that bear his name
John Zahorsky
John Zahorsky Jr (1871-1963) was an Austro-Hungarian born American pediatrician. Early description of roeola infantum (sixth disease) and herpangina
Frederic Foley
Frederic Eugene Basil Foley (1891 – 1966) was an American urologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Foley catheter and many other urological inventions
Armand Trousseau
Armand Trousseau (1801 - 1867) was a French Physician. Eponymously affiliated with a sign, a spot and a syndrome...
Christian Baastrup
Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (1885 – 1950) was a Danish radiologist. Described Baastrup disease (sign) (1933) Kissing spines sign
Norman Gregg
Sir Norman McAlister Gregg (1892-1966) was an Australian ophthalmologist
George Chance
George Quentin Chance was an British radiologist. Eponymously associated with the Chance fracture (1948) transverse fracture through a vertebral body
Frank Holdsworth
Sir Frank Wild Holdsworth (1904 – 1969) was a British Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponym the Holdsworth fracture
Mario Bertolotti
Mario Bertolotti (1876-1957) was an Italian radiologist. Bertolotti syndrome (1917) L5 transverse processes and sacrum Sacralisation
Adrien Barrère
Adrien Albert Athanase Baneux (1874-1931) was a was a French medical caricaturist, poster artist and painter in Paris during the Belle Époque
Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (1865 – 1921) was a German radiologist. Albers-Schönberg disease (osteopetrosis, marble bone disease)