Fox’s sign
Fox's sign: non-traumatic ecchymosis over the upper outer aspect of the thigh secondary to abdominal haemorrhage. First described by English surgeon John Adrian Fox in 1966
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John A. Fox
John Adrian Fox English surgeon. Eponym: Fox's sign (1966) non-traumatic ecchymosis upper outer thigh with abdominal haemorrhage
Chopart fracture dislocation
Dislocation of the foot through the talonavicular and the calcaneocuboid joints (Chopart joint) with associated fractures. François Chopart
William H. Park
William Hallock Park (1863–1939) was an American Immunologist. Park-Williams bacillus (1894); Typhoid Mary (1907)
Lisa Welander
Lisa Welander (1909 - 2001) was a Swedish neurologist. Sweden's first professor of neurology. Welander distal myopathy; Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander syndrome
Stabler Sign
Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis in the inguinal-pubic area associated with ectopic pregnancy. Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902–1967)
Francis Edward Stabler
Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902 – 1967) English surgeon, obstetrician and gynaecologist. Eponym: Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis
Edith Potter
Edith Louise Potter (1901 - 1993) was an American pediatric pathologist. Potter facies (1946); Potter syndrome; Potter syndrome; Potter sequence; and the Potter classification of polycystic kidney disease (1964)
Emil Pins
Emil Elias Pins (1847 - 1913) was an Austrian physician. Pins sign (1889) of pericarditis and pericardial effusion similar to Ewart sign
Maud Menten
Maud Leonora Menten (1879 - 1960) was a Canadian pathologist, biochemical researcher and physician. Michaelis-Menten equation 1913
Margaret B. Horan
Margaret Burton (née Cleland) Horan (1909 - 2004) was an Australian paediatrician. Nance-Horan syndrome (1974)
Gabrielle Lévy
Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy (1886 - 1935) was a French neurologist and neuropathologist. Roussy-Lévy syndrome (1926); Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome (1931)