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Paget disease of bone 680

Paget disease of bone

Paget disease of bone, osteitis deformans history from Czerny and Paget. Clinical findings, diagnosis, pathology and bisphosphonate treatment.

eponymous hernia 680

Eponymous Hernia

Eponymous hernias: clear definition, etymology, and a quick guide to types—Amyand, de Garengeot, Littre, Richter, Spigelian, Bochdalek, Morgagni.

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Klumpke Palsy

Lower brachial plexus injury, with consequent weakness and wasting of the C8–T1 musculature. Augusta Klumpke (1859-1927)

8 November 1895 discovery of X-rays 340

November 8, 1895

On November 8, 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen, chair of physics at Würzburg, noted an unusual phenomenon, that would change the world of medicine

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Blue Scrotum Sign of Bryant

Bryant’s sign: Scrotal ecchymosis associated with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) first described in 1903 by John Henry Bryant (1867-1906)

Monteggia fracture-dislocation 340

Monteggia fracture

Monteggia fracture. Fracture of the proximal or middle third of the ulna with associated radial head dislocation/instability. GB Monteggia 1812

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Naxos disease

Naxos disease: a recessively inherited condition with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/ cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) non-epidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma, and woolly hair

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Paget-Schroetter Syndrome

Primary thrombosis of the subclavian vein at the costoclavicular junction. The formation of an axillo-subclavian vein thrombosis results from endothelial trauma, often as a result of repetitive activity of the upper limbs.