Stabler Sign
Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis in the inguinal-pubic area associated with ectopic pregnancy. Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902–1967)
Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis in the inguinal-pubic area associated with ectopic pregnancy. Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902–1967)
Accentuation of the murmur of tricuspid stenosis with inspiration described by Mexican cardiologist José Manuel Rivero Carvallo (1905–1993) in 1946
A test for diagnosing de Quervain’s tenosynovitis, or snapping thumb syndrome. First described in 1930 by Harry Finkelstein (1883-1975)
Wellens syndrome - learn how to recognise this sign of critical LAD occlusion, with some great ECG examples from the LITFL ECG library
Myocardial infarction diagnosis in the presence of left bundle branch block (LBBB) or ventricular paced rhythm. Sgarbossa Criteria
De Quervain described chronic tenosynovitis thickening the tendon sheath of the abductor muscle of the thumb and of the extensor short muscle of the thumb.
Wynne-Davies Ligamentous Laxity Criteria (1970) by Edinburgh orthopedic surgeon Ruth Wynne-Davies (1926 - 2012)
To evaluate the hypothesis that 'There is ALWAYS an alternative to the dead man's name for body parts' and create a database to facilitate the de-eponymification of anatomic terminology
The Mallampati Score is a grading system based on the visualisation of the pharyngeal structures during laryngoscopy.
Description The Hunt-Hess Scale is a graded scale used to predict the rate of mortality based solely on the clinical features seen in a patient presenting with an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Grade Characteristic Mortality Rate1,2 0 Unruptured aneurysm without symptoms…
Smith fracture: Extra-articular fracture of the distal radius with associated palmar angulation of the distal fracture fragment. (1847)
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: severe unilateral periorbital headache and ophthalmoplegia resulting from a non-caseating granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous sinus and/or superior orbital fissure.