Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 352
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 352 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
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Louis Queyrat
Louis Auguste Queyrat (1856-1933) was a French Dermatologist and syphilologist. Erythroplasia de Queyrat (carcinoma in situ of the glans)
Hamilton Bailey
Henry Hamilton Bailey (1894-1961) was an English surgeon and and influential medical publisher.
Brown-Séquard Syndrome
Brown-Séquard syndrome is an incomplete spinal cord injury, affecting the entire lateral half of the spinal cord (hemisection) and results in weakness or paralysis on one side of the body and a loss of sensation on the opposite side
Ralph Grover
Ralph Weir Grover (1920-2008) was an American Dermatologist. Grover disease (1970) - transient acantholytic dermatosis
Johannes Zoon
Johannes Jacobus Zoon (1902-1958) was a Dutch dermatologist. Eponym Zoon's balanitis, ie balanitis chronica circumscripta plasmacellularis
Hugh Pemberton
Hugh Spear Pemberton (1890-1956) was an English physician. Pemberton's description of his manoeuvre and Pemberton Sign appeared in a brief letter to The Lancet in 1946
Ernest Bazin
Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin (1807-1878) French physician and dermatologist. Alibert-Bazin syndrome; Bazin disease
Zoon Balanitis
Eponym Zoon's balanitis, ie balanitis chronica circumscripta plasmacellularis. Johannes Jacobus Zoon (1902-1958) was a Dutch dermatologist.
Adult CXR Cases 028
January 2023 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Angela Pikus, Mark Baumgarten, Alex Blackwell and Rosa Malloy-Post
Gerstmann syndrome
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History Associated Persons Alternative names Controversies Did they first describe or popularise or plagiarise? References Historical references Eponymous term review
Josef Gerstmann
Biography Medical Eponyms Gerstmann syndrome autotopagnosia; finger agnosia Gerstmann syndrome 2 A paranoid psychosis with auditory hallucinations in patients with general paresis of the insane, as a result of malarial therapy, described by Gerstmann in 1924. Major Publications References Biography…