Nancy B. Esterly
Nancy Burton Esterly (1935 - 2017) was an American pediatric dermatologist. Esterly-McKusick syndrome (1971)
Category LITFL
Dock’s murmur
Dock’s murmur: Early diastolic murmur when there is a severe stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery. 1967 William Dock
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William Dock
William Dock (1898-1990) American cardiologist, irascible visionary whose prophetic warnings bucked convention. Dock's murmur, Dock's Law
Thomas S. Cullen
Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869 – 1953) was a Canadian gynecologist. Eponymously affiliated with Cullen sign (1918)
Pirkko Santavuori
Pirkko Santavuori (1933 - 2004) was a Finnish paediatric neurologist. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) [Santavuori disease]
Julia Bell
Julia Bell (1879 - 1979) was an English human geneticist. Martin-Bell syndrome (1943) [Fragile X syndrome]
Ingrid Gamstorp
Ingrid Gamstorp (1924 - 2007) was a Swedish paediatric neurologist. Gamstorp disease (1956); Gamstorp-Wohlfart Syndrome (1959)
Charlotte Dravet
Charlotte Dravet (1936 - ) French paediatric psychiatrist and epileptologist. Dravet Syndrome (Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy-6) in 1978
Grey Turner sign
Grey Turner sign refers to bruising of the flanks. Originally described 1919 (published 1920) by George Grey Turner (1877–1951) most commonly associated with acute pancreatitis
George Grey Turner
George Grey Turner (1877–1951) English surgeon. Eponym: Grey Turner sign after description of flank ecchymosis in 1919 (published 1920)
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