Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD): avascular necrosis (AVN) of the proximal femoral head. The disease is usually insidious in onset and may occur after an injury to the hip.
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Eduardo Tolosa
Eduard Tolosa i Colomer (1900 - 1981) was a Spanish neurosurgeon. described the superior orbital fissure syndrome in 1954 (Tolosa-Hunt syndrome)
Traffic light urine
Unusual Urine 007 from @KateTietjens. 15 min post methylene blue = traffic light urine!
Barton fracture
Barton fracture: Intra-articular distal radius fracture with radiocarpal joint subluxation. John Rhea Barton described Barton fracture in 1838.
Mueller–Weiss disease
Müller-Weiss syndrome , or spontaneous osteonecrosis of the tarsal navicular in adults, is a rare cause of chronic medial midfoot pain.
Joseph François Malgaigne
Joseph François Malgaigne (1806-1865) French Surgeon medical historian and critical thinker. Malgaine fracture (1847) unstable pelvic fracture
Adrenaline or epinephrine?
Adrenaline or epinephrine? Based on the 'usage argument'; 'historical precedent' and 'etymological derivation'...adrenaline
Osteopoikilosis
Osteopoikilosis is a autosomal dominant sclerosing bony dysplasia characterized by multiple benign benign sclerotic bone lesions (enostoses) that tend to localize in periarticular osseous regions
Adolf Wallenberg
Adolf Wallenberg (1862-1949) was a German neurologist. Wallenberg Syndrome and the Wallenberg Tract
Wilhelm Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 – 1923) was a German physicist. 8 November 1895 produced electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays (Röntgen rays).
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 327
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 327 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF Halloween edition.
Marie Colinet
Marie Colinet von Hilden (c1560 - c1640) was a Swiss midwife and surgeon. First recorded ophthalmic extraction of metal from a patients eye with a magnet (1624)