Abdominal Imaging Cases 004
January 2020 Adult Abdominal imaging cases and interpretation with Isolina R. Rossi, MD, Brian P. Shreve, MD and Kyle Cunningham, MD
Category Medical Specialty
Pel-Ebstein fever
Description What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification… History 1885 – Pieter Klazes Pel first described this phenomenon in Berliner klinische Wochenschrift. A 25-year-old paper maker died after a four-month illness, in which five 10-30 day episodes of fever, each…
Caspar Bartholin Secundus
Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655 - 1738) was a Danish physician and anatomist. Bartholin Glands (1677)
Fuller Albright
Fuller Albright (1900 - 1969) was an American endocrinologist.
Florence C. Dudley
Florence Chisholm Dudley (1902 - 1962) was an American assistant in medical genetics. Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (1943)
Ekbom syndrome II
Ekbom syndrome or delusional parasitosis is characterised by delusions, symptoms of formication and signs such as self-mutilation or the matchbox-sign
Eeva Therman
Eeva Therman-Patau (1916 - 2004) was a Finnish-American cytogeneticist. Mrs. X Chromosome
Oskar Kobyliński
Carl Oscar Alexander von Kobyliński (1856 - 1926) was a Polish-Baltic German general practitioner. First description of Noonan syndrome (1893)
Bernadette Christol
Bernadette Christol (1934 - 2011) was a French dermatologist. Bazex-Dupré-Christol syndrome (1964)
Pierre Adolphe Piorry
Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Oven V. Piorry. Biographies des célébrités médicales, . 1867 Sakula A. Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879): pioneer of percussion and pleximetry. Thorax. 1979; 34(5): 575-581.
Theodor Langhans
Biography Medical Eponyms Langhans giant cells (1868) The presence of Langhans giant cells (LGCs) is one of the signatures of systemic granulomatous disorders such as tuberculosis and sarcoidosis. Although originally described in association with tuberculosis, they are found in nearly every…
Reed-Sternberg cells
Reed–Sternberg cells: multinucleate, giant cells found in individuals with Hodgkin lymphoma. Carl Sternberg (1898) and Dorothy Reed (1902)