Ruth Illig
Ruth Illig (1924 - 2017) was a German pediatric endocrinologist. Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism; Illig syndrome (1970)
Category Endocrinology
Fuller Albright
Fuller Albright (1900 - 1969) was an American endocrinologist.
Thomas Addison
Thomas Addison (1795 - 1860) was an English physician.
The Cretin and the Pharoah
Dr Duncan's legacy in a remote New Guinea valley
Friedrich Schultze
Friedrich Schultze (1848 - 1934) was a German neurologist.
Nathan Weiss
Nathan Weiss (1851 - 1883) was a Czech born, Austrian trained physician and neurologist.
Chvostek sign
Chvostek sign is contraction of facial muscles provoked by lightly tapping over the facial nerve anterior to the ear as it crosses the zygomatic arch.
Diffuse Toxic Goitre
The problem of nomenclature of diffuse toxic goitre (Parry, Graves or Basedow disease) remains an unsettled one. So lets review the chronological history of eponymous aetiology for toxic goitre/exophthalmic goitre
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff (1937 – ) Bulgarian born, Canadian qualified, American practicing endocrinologist describing Thyroid hormone resistance (TRH) in 1967
Hakaru Hashimoto
Hakaru Hashimoto 橋本 策 (1881 - 1934) was a Japanese medical practitioner. Hashimoto thyroiditis 1912
Hypokalaemic Periodic Paralysis
Hypokalaemic Periodic Paralysis; rare channelopathy; muscle weakness/paralysis with a matching fall in K+ levels; starts in adolescence; weakness may be mild -> full body paralysis
Carcinoid Syndrome
Carcinoid tumors are neuroendocrine malignancies typically located in the GI tract; most commonly in the terminal ilium and appendix.