Massouh sign
Farouk Massouh is a British General Surgeon eponymously associated with the Massouh Sign in acute appendicitis
Category LITFL
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 333
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 333 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Ultrasound for LP
Wendy Chang takes us through the use of ultrasound for lumbar puncture and how this should be used consistently, not just for difficult cases and field cases.
Frank Wilson
Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Wilson precordial leads Early description of WPW Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Wilson FN. A case in which the vagus influenced the form of the ventricular complex of the electrocardiogram. 1915. [Reprint: Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2002…
Thomas Geoffrey Barlow
Thomas Geoffrey Barlow (1915 – 1975) British Orthopaedic surgeon. Barlow maneuver (Barlow test) screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in infants
Marino Ortolani
Marino Ortolani (1904 – 1983) Italian pediatrician. Professor Marino Ortolani revolutionized the management of Italian pediatric wards. Ortolani Test CHD
Sherren triangle
Area of skin hyperaesthesia bounded by lines joining anterior superior iliac spine, the pubic symphysis and umbilicus. One of myriad eponymous signs of acute appendicitis.
Hawkins classification
Hawkins classification: Classification system for talar neck fractures. Hawkins originally described Types I-III in 1970 with Canale and Kelly adding Type IV in 1978
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) Osteochondrosis or traction apophysitis of the tibial tubercle. Paget (1891), Osgood (1903), Schlatter (1903)
Pelligrini-Stieda lesion
Köhler-Pellegrini-Stieda lesion: ossification near medial femoral collateral ligament adjacent to the margin of the medial femoral condyle.
François Chopart
François Chopart (1743 – 1795) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously associated with Chopart fracture-dislocation, Chopart joint and Chopart amputation.
Augustus Desiré Waller
Augustus Desiré Waller (1856 – 1922) was a British physiologist who recorded the first ever electrocardiogram (ECG).