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Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859 – 1927) 340

Augusta Klumpke

Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859-1927) was an American neurologist. Klumpke palsy (1885). First woman in France to receive the title of ‘interne des hôpitaux’ and the first female President of the Societé de neurologie de Paris.

Pancoast tumour 1924 680

Pancoast Tumour

Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.

Pancoast Syndrome 1924 680

Pancoast Syndrome

Pancoast Syndrome occurs secondary to local compression of brachial plexus and sympathetic chain by superior (pulmonary) sulcus tumors.

Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875-1939) 680

Henry Pancoast

Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him

Frederic Jay Cotton (1869 - 1939) 340 2

Frederic Cotton

Frederic Jay Cotton (1869–1939) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Cotton fracture (trimalleolar fracture) and Cotton-Loader position (hyper-flexed wrist with ulna deviation in closed reduction of distal radius fractures)