William Bainbridge
William Seaman Bainbridge (1870-1947), American surgeon, cancer educator, naval physician and early advocate of spinal analgesia in children.
Category Oncology
Bamberger–Marie syndrome
Bamberger–Marie syndrome (hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy): clubbing, bone periostosis, and joint effusions—historically recognised as a paraneoplastic syndrome linked to lung disease.
Sister Mary Joseph
Sister Mary Joseph (Julia Dempsey) (1856 - 1939) was an American Catholic nun, nurse, and hospital administrator. Sister Mary Joseph sign (1928)
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)