Sister Mary Joseph
Sister Mary Joseph (Julia Dempsey) (1856 - 1939) was an American Catholic nun, nurse, and hospital administrator. Sister Mary Joseph sign (1928)
Category Oncology
Winking owl sign
One of the first signs of vertebral metastases is disappearance of the pedicle on the AP X-ray. This is known as the 'absent pedicle' or 'winking owl sign'.
Modifications to blood components
Modifications to blood components that can be requested / are performed on products which include washed, phenotype matching etc.
Network Five: Medical oncology
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 7 - Oncology reviewing papers on frailty screening, Dexmedetomidine and immune checkpoint inhibitors
James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing (1866-1943) Eponymously remembered for describing a new “endothelioma” that would later be known as Ewing sarcoma
Maria Dąbska
Maria Magdalena Dąbska (1921 - 2014) was a Polish pathologist. Dąbska tumor (1969) is the only cutaneous tumour named after a female pathologist.
Dorothy Reed
Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall (1874 - 1964) was an American physician, pediatrician and public health specialist. Reed-Sternberg cells (1902)
Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866) was an English physician and pathologist. Eponym: Hodgkin disease (1832); Key-Hodgkin murmur (1827)
Denis Burkitt
Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911 - 1993) was an Irish surgeon. Burkitt lymphoma (1958)
Reed-Sternberg cells
Reed–Sternberg cells: multinucleate, giant cells found in individuals with Hodgkin lymphoma. Carl Sternberg (1898) and Dorothy Reed (1902)
Neutropaenic Sepsis
Febrile neutropaenia (or neutropaenic fever) is defined as: a single temperature measurement >=38.5C, or a sustained temperature >=38C for more than 1 hour; in a patient with a decreased absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of either <0.5 x 109/L, or <1 x 109/L with a predicted nadir of <0.5 x 109/L over the subsequent 48h
Renal and Urological Toxicity of Chemotherapy
Renal and Urological Toxicity of Chemotherapy: chronic renal failure; acute renal failure; renal tubular dysfunction; haemorrhagic cystitis; dysuria