Marino Ortolani
Marino Ortolani (1904 – 1983) Italian pediatrician. Professor Marino Ortolani revolutionized the management of Italian pediatric wards. Ortolani Test CHD
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Sherren triangle
Area of skin hyperaesthesia bounded by lines joining anterior superior iliac spine, the pubic symphysis and umbilicus. One of myriad eponymous signs of acute appendicitis.
Hawkins classification
Hawkins classification: Classification system for talar neck fractures. Hawkins originally described Types I-III in 1970 with Canale and Kelly adding Type IV in 1978
Osgood-Schlatter disease
Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) Osteochondrosis or traction apophysitis of the tibial tubercle. Paget (1891), Osgood (1903), Schlatter (1903)
Pelligrini-Stieda lesion
Köhler-Pellegrini-Stieda lesion: ossification near medial femoral collateral ligament adjacent to the margin of the medial femoral condyle.
François Chopart
François Chopart (1743 – 1795) was a French Surgeon. Eponymously associated with Chopart fracture-dislocation, Chopart joint and Chopart amputation.
Augustus Desiré Waller
Augustus Desiré Waller (1856 – 1922) was a British physiologist who recorded the first ever electrocardiogram (ECG).
James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing (1866-1943) Eponymously remembered for describing a new “endothelioma” that would later be known as Ewing sarcoma
Frank Eve
Frank Cecil Eve (1871-1952) was an English physician. Eponym: Eve’s rocking method for artificial respiration published in 1932
Edward Sharpey-Schafer
Biography Born Edward Albert Schäfer on June 2, 1850 in Hornsey, England 1918 – Name change to Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. In memory of his son John Sharpey Schafer, killed in action, his teacher and mentor William Sharpey (1802-1880) Died on…
Bundgaard syndrome
Bundgaard et al introduced us in 2018 to "Familial ST-segment depression syndrome", a new cardiac arrhythmia syndrome predisposing to atrial fibrillation, VT, and sudden cardiac death.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 332
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 332 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.