Albert Stevens
Albert Mason Stevens (1884 – 1945) was an American surgeon. Eponym Stevens-Johnson syndrome (with Frank Chambliss Johnson)
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Terry’s Nails
Terry's nails are a type of apparent leukonychia, characterized by ground glass opacification of almost the entire nail, with a narrow band of normal, pink nail bed at the distal border, and often with obliteration of the lunula.
Tillaux fracture
Fracture of the anterolateral tibial epiphysis commonly seen in adolescents. (Salter-Harris III tibial fracture) aka Tillaux-Chaput fracture.
John L. Lovibond
Biography Medical Eponyms Lovibond angle (profile sign) [1938] In 1938, Lovibond was among the first to offer a criteria for the diagnosis of finger clubbing. He defined the ‘profile sign’ of the thumb (Lovibond’s angle), as the angle made by…
William B. Bean
William Bennett Bean (1909-1989) was an American physician, medical historian. Bean syndrome (1958) [Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome] and spider naevi
LITFL Update 035
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Mindfulness: COVID stillness
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 14: COVID stillness; mindfulness may have positive beneficial effects on immunity...
Network Five: Christmas special
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 12 - Christmas edition with Q fever, snake bite in the 1800s, and festive risks
Merry Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 343
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 343 - Christmas - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Ralph Ger
Ralph Ger (1921-2012) was a South African clinical anatomist, surgeon and educator. Ger's sign of scrotal dimple in testicular torsion (1962)
Mindfulness: The right frame
Mindfulness and the emergency healthcare professional, Chapter 13: Choosing the right frame; our reaction to stress, and our external projection of that reaction
Network Five: Pulmonary embolism
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 11 - Pulmonary embolism with PERT teams, YEARS and the RELAX-PE studies