Foreign body pulmonary embolisation
Case review of Implanon NXT migration to the pulmonary artery: missing implant, subtle CXR clue, CTPA diagnosis and endovascular retrieval.
Category Obstetrics Gynaecology
Charles E. Flowers Jr
Charles Ely Flowers Jr (1920-1999). American obstetrician-gynaecologist linked to continuous peridural anaesthesia and the Tuohy–Flowers epidural needle
Alders sign
Alders sign: a positional tenderness test in pregnancy. Explore its 1951 origins, examination technique, role in appendicitis and limited diagnostic evidence.
Nicholas Alders
Nicholas Alders (1904–1995), Austrian-trained obstetrician who fled Nazi Vienna in 1938. Alders sign for abdominal pain in pregnancy (1951)
Bryan sign
Bryan sign (1955): original examination for appendicitis in pregnancy, uterine displacement technique, diagnostic evidence and comparison with Alders sign.
Williams Bryan
Williams McIver Bryan, Jr (1917-2007), American obstetrician and gynecologist. Described Bryan sign in appendicitis with gravid uterus (1955)
Eugen Aburel
Eugen Bogdan Aburel (1899-1975), Romanian obstetrician and gynaecologist. Pioneer of continuous epidural analgesia, and fertility-sparing cancer surgery
Oskar Kreis
Oskar Kreis (1872–1958), Swiss obstetrician who pioneered obstetric spinal analgesia with intrathecal cocaine (1900), enabling forceps delivery and shaping neuraxial practice
Walter Stoeckel
Walter Stoeckel (1871–1961), German gynaecologist who advanced caudal epidural analgesia in labour (1909) and shaped radical vaginal surgery and teaching.
James Marion Sims
American gynecologist James Marion Sims (1813-1883) pioneered vesicovaginal fistula surgery but remains controversial for non-consensual experiments on enslaved women.
Meigs syndrome
Meigs syndrome: Triad of ascites with hydrothorax in association with benign ovarian tumor, that is cured after tumor resection. Described in 1934 by Joe Vincent Meigs (1892-1963)
Joe Vincent Meigs
Joe Vincent Meigs (1892-1963) American gynaecologic oncology. Meigs syndrome, radical hysterectomy innovations and validation of Pap smear screening.