Category Medical Specialty
Battle sign 680

Battle Sign

Battle sign: mastoid ecchymosis indicating basilar skull fracture, described by W.H. Battle in 1890; it holds >75% PPV for posterior fossa injury.

Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833 - 1902) 1200

Carl Gerhardt

Carl Gerhardt (1833–1902), German internist and paediatric pioneer, described Gerhardt’s sign and advanced diagnostics, paediatrics, and laryngology

eponym LITFL 340

Alfred Stieda

Eugen Julius Karl Paul Alfred Stieda (1869 – 1945) was a German Surgeon. Eponym: The Stieda fracture, Stieda tubercle and Pellegrini-Stieda disease (1908)

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 680

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common inherited neuropathy, encompassing genetically diverse subtypes of peripheral nerve dysfunction.

Numbered diseases of childhood SIXTH DISEASE 680

Sixth disease

Common viral illness in infants caused by HHV-6. Roseola presents with high fever followed by sudden rash; also known as sixth disease or exanthem subitum.

Numbered diseases of childhood FOURTH DISEASE 680

Fourth disease

Filatov-Dukes disease, or fourth disease, was a proposed childhood exanthem now largely dismissed as a misclassification of rubella or scarlet fever.

Numbered diseases of childhood THIRD DISEASE 1200

Third disease

Mild viral exanthem in children; dangerous in pregnancy. Rubella causes rash and lymphadenopathy, with congenital infection leading to CRS.

Numbered diseases of childhood SECOND DISEASE 680

Second disease

Scarlet fever (second disease). Contagious GABHS infection in kids under 10 with sore throat or rash; caused by S. pyogenes strains producing erythrogenic toxin.