Category LITFL
Thomas sign AM Thomas Ogilvie 1955

Thomas sign

Thomas's sign: Silver, aluminium or metallic coloured stools. Caused by the combination of cholestatic (acholic) pale stools secondary to CBD obstruction and the black-tar colour malaena.

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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

Sanders T. Frank

Biography Medical Eponyms Frank’s sign (1973) Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms

Wladimir Bechterew

Biography There are only two persons who know the anatomy of the brain perfectly – God and Bekhterev. Friedrich Kopsch Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms