Category LITFL
Nils Johan Hugo Westermark (1892 - 1980) 340

Nils Westermark

Nils Johan Hugo Westermark (1892 - 1980) was a Swedish radiologist. Westermark sign (1938) of relative oligemia on CXR in pulmonary embolism

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Sgarbossa Criteria history

Sgarbossa's rule, proposed for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in the presence of left bundle branch block. Sgarbossa Criteria can be used to assist in determining which patients with LBBB are having an AMI.

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Pierre Barrère

Pierre Barrère (1690 - 1755) was a French physician and naturalist. He published works in medicine, presenting cadaveric dissections and detailed descriptions of pathologies such as pericardial effusion

William Morrant Baker (1839 – 1896) 340

William Morrant Baker

William Morrant Baker (1839 – 1896) was a British General Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Baker's cyst and Baker's cannula, a flexible tracheal cannula

John-J-Osborn-1917-2014 340

John Osborn

John J Osborn (1917 – 2014) was an American intensivist, pediatrician and inventor. Eponym: 'current of injury' Osborn wave - 1953

Emil Theodor Kocher (1841 – 1917) 340

Emil Theodor Kocher

Emil Theodor Kocher (1841 – 1917) was a Swiss Surgeon. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909. 5,000 thyroid excisions. Shoulder reduction

James Hope

Biography Medical Eponyms Hope sign (1832) Systolic protrusion and retraction of the anterior chest wall in patients with pericardial adhesions In five or six cases (and, since this was published seven years ago (1832), I may now say a much…

Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig (1889 - 1993) 340

Paula Hertwig

Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig (1889 - 1993) was a German geneticist. Hertwig-Weyers syndrome - Congenital disorder associating ulnar and digital aplasia - (1942, 1957)