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Anton syndrome

Anton syndrome: Visual anosognosia or Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare neurological condition related to cortical blindness. The patients deny their blindness and affirm adamantly that they are capable of seeing.

Heerfordt syndrome

Heerfordt syndrome: a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis characterized by the presence of fever, facial nerve palsy, parotid gland enlargement, anterior uveitis, and low grade fever

Odentophagia

Procrastination and Neologisation met in a bar. Eponyms and retrodiction lay idle as they were enveloped by the dankness of stagnant learning, draped in the predilection of Morpheus. They begat an heir 'Odentophagia'

H Kirk Watson

Biography 1960 – Graduated George Washington University Medical Eponyms Watson’s test (1988) [scaphoid shift] – to assess scapholunate instability Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Watson HK, Ashmead D 4th, Makhlouf MV. Examination of the scaphoid. J Hand Surg Am. 1988…

Walter Putnam Blount

Walter Putnam Blount (1900 – 1992) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponym: Erlacher-Blount syndrome; Blount staple. Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery.

Ramon Brugada

Biography Born 1966 Banyoles 1990 – Medical degree, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1995 – Emory University, Atlanta 2000 – Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Eponyms Brugada Syndrome Key Medical Attributions Controversies Major Publications Brugada J, Brugada P, Brugada…