Virginia P. Sybert
Virginia P. Sybert. American medical geneticist and dermatologist. Palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) of Sybert (1988)
Category LITFL
André Lemierre
André-Alfred Lemierre (1875 – 1956) was a French bacteriologist. Best known for his 1836 publication on the condition now known as Lemierre syndrome
Charles Lockwood
Charles Barrett Lockwood (1856 - 1914) was an English surgeon. Lockwood sign of chronic appendicitis, described by Colt in 1932
Ottomar Rosenbach
Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach (1851 - 1907) was a German physician. Rosenbach sign of aortic regurgitation (1878), Rosenbach sign of autoimmune hyperthyroidism, Rosenbach-Semon Law (1880), and Rosenbach test (1880).
Still’s murmur
Still's Murmur ejection systolic murmur first described in 1909 by English pediatrician Sir George Frederic Still KCVO (1868 – 1941)
Capgras syndrome
Capgras syndrome: uncommon syndrome in which a patient has a delusional belief that a person, usually a family member or friend, has been replaced by an imposter.
Joseph Capgras
French psychiatrist, Jean Marie Joseph Capgras (1873-1950) best known for his description 'syndrome d’illusion des sosies', Capgras syndrome in 1923
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture (1886 - 1960) was an American pathologist. Goodpasture syndrome (1918)
MacGyverism and “hacking COVID-19”
Implementation ,testing, and development of innovations into clinical practice. Part 5 of the "COVID-19: Keeping the baby in the bath" series.
George Frederic Still
Sir George Frederic Still (1868-1941) English paediatrician. Described as the 'father of British paediatrics'. Still's disease, Still's murmur
Thomas Fitz-Hugh
Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Jr (1894 – 1963) was an American Surgeon eponymously affiliated with Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome (1930, 1934)
Joseph Skoda
Joseph Škoda (1805–1881) was a Czech physician. Eponym: Skodaic ressonance (1837) - third class of percussion sounds