Rigler notch sign
Indentation in the border of a solid lung mass (thought to represent a feeding vessel) - suggestive of a bronchial carcinoma.
Category Respiratory
John L. Lovibond
Biography Born on May 4, 1907 1929 – BA 1932 – MRCS LRCP 1933 – MA 1934 – MB BCh 1935 – MRCP 1936 – MD 1943 – FRCP Died on May 4, 1954 Medical Eponyms Lovibond angle (profile sign)…
Network Five: Pulmonary embolism
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 11 - Pulmonary embolism with PERT teams, YEARS and the RELAX-PE studies
Leo Schamroth
Professor Abraham Leo Schamroth (1924-1988) was a South African cardiologist.
Peter Kerley
Sir Peter James Kerley (1900-1979) was an Irish radiologist. Kerley was widely published including describing (but not naming) his eponymous lines firstly in 1933 and then in again his textbook in 1950, and widely about TB diagnosis. Kerley lines A, B and C
Henri Huchard
Henri Huchard (1844 - 1910) was a French cardiologist and neurologist. Eponymous term: Syndrôme de Huchard (Texidor twinge) in 1893
Severe asthma management
Haney Mallemat recounts a story of an asthmatic who minutes after he was intubated, became bradycardic, hypertensive and coded.
Common Trauma Radiology Misses
Andrew Dixon takes us through five Common Trauma Radiology Misses and Misinterpretations.
Golden S sign
Golden S sign. Radiological sign which should raise suspicion of bronchial carcinoma. Rss Golden first described a characteristic reverse S-shaped shadow in the right upper lobe in 1925
CXR essentials: The many faces of pneumonia
Medmastery video helps identify the various radiological presentations of pneumonia such as lobar, interstitial , bronchopneumonia and special considerations in immunocompromised patients
ECG changes in Pulmonary Embolism
The ECG changes associated with acute pulmonary embolism may be seen in any condition that causes acute pulmonary hypertension, including hypoxia causing pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction.
Ernest William Goodpasture
Ernest William Goodpasture (1886 - 1960) was an American pathologist. Goodpasture syndrome (1918)