Category LITFL

James Sanders

Biography Medical Eponyms Sanders sign (1823) The undulatory character of the cardiac impulse in the epigastric region, indicative of adherent pericardium (l’adhérence du péricarde). Specifically the presence of a depression occurring under the left ribs and in the epigastrium during…

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Henri Victor Chaput

Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput (1857 – 1919) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Tillaux-Chaput fracture (1907)

Charles James Blasius Williams

Biography Medical Eponyms Williams sign (1840) Systolic protrusion of the precordium and retractions of the epigastrium in patients with adherent pericarditis Williams described the findings of inspection and palpation which he identified in patients with adherent pericarditis in his 1840…

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Hoffa fracture

Unicondylar coronal fracture of the lateral femoral condyle. Rare intra-articular distal femur injury. Axial compression to the knee with transmission of the ground reaction force through the tibial plateau to the femoral condyles.