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
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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.
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 Medical Eponyms In 1941, Edgar Pask reviewed a range of methods of artificial respiration in the unconscious intubated patient (himself…) including the Silvester method; the Shaefer method; and Eve’s rocking method. Pask concluded that Eve’s rocking method (rocking on a stretcher to 45 degrees…
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.
“Benign” Early Repolarization Misnomer
In 2008, Haïssaguerre et al challenged the well-embedded term "benign" early repolarization by demonstrating a link between this familiar ECG pattern and idiopathic VF arrest
Konrad Weiss
Konrad Weiss (1891 - 1976) was an Austrian radiologist. Early descriptions of Müller-Weiss syndrome, the dissecting aortic aneurysm, and gastric torsion
Aslanger Pattern: Another OMI?
Aslanger et al identified a specific ECG pattern concerning for acute inferior occlusion MI in patients with concomitant multi-vessel disease, that does not display contiguous ST-segment elevation or fulfil STEMI criteria