Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is one of the most common forms of peripheral vertigo. Whilst its name may not be the most imaginative or succinct, it accurately describes the syndrome
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Bassler Sign
Anthony Bassler (1874-1959) was an American gastroenterologist. In 1913 he described Bassler sign: compressing the appendix to assist in diagnosing chronic appendicitis.
Aaron sign
Aaron sign: referred pain felt in the epigastrium upon continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point, indicative of chronic appendicitis (1913) by Charles Dettie Aaron (1866-1951)
Piotr Porfiryevich Sitkovskiy
Piotr Porfiryevich Sitkovskiy (Петр Порфирьевич Ситковский) (1882 – 1933) was a Russian surgeon. Sitkovskiy sign (1922) appendicitis
Massouh sign
Farouk Massouh is a British General Surgeon eponymously associated with the Massouh Sign in acute appendicitis
Hawkins classification
Hawkins classification: Classification system for talar neck fractures. Hawkins originally described Types I-III in 1970 with Canale and Kelly adding Type IV in 1978
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) Osteochondrosis or traction apophysitis of the tibial tubercle. Paget (1891), Osgood (1903), Schlatter (1903)
Pelligrini-Stieda lesion
Köhler-Pellegrini-Stieda lesion: ossification near medial femoral collateral ligament adjacent to the margin of the medial femoral condyle.
Bundgaard syndrome
Bundgaard et al introduced us in 2018 to "Familial ST-segment depression syndrome", a new cardiac arrhythmia syndrome predisposing to atrial fibrillation, VT, and sudden cardiac death.
“Benign” Early Repolarization Misnomer
In 2008, Haïssaguerre et al challenged the well-embedded term "benign" early repolarization by demonstrating a link between this familiar ECG pattern and idiopathic VF arrest
Aslanger Pattern: Another OMI?
Aslanger et al identified a specific ECG pattern concerning for acute inferior occlusion MI in patients with concomitant multi-vessel disease, that does not display contiguous ST-segment elevation or fulfil STEMI criteria
Grisel Syndrome
Spontaneous, nontraumatic rotatory subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint following peripharyngeal inflammation or ENT surgical procedures