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Home | Medical Specialty | Orthopaedics | George Quentin Chance

George Quentin Chance

by Dr Mike Cadogan, last update December 5, 2018

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George Quentin Chance (- – -) was an British radiologist. He first described the eponymously termed Chance fracture in 1948

Biography

  • Born 1904
  • 1928 – MB BCh University of Dublin
  • 1938 – DMRE Cambridge
  • Director of Radiology Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby
  • Honorary fellow Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • Died

Medical Eponyms

  • Chance fracture (1948)

Major Publications

  • Chance GQ. Note on a type of flexion fracture of the spine. Br J Radiol. 1948 Sep;21(249):452. [PMID 18878306]
  • Doupe J, Cullen CH, Chance GQ. Post-traumatic pain and the causalgic syndrome. J Neurol Psychiatry. 1944 Jan-Apr; 7(1-2): 33–48. [PMC1090439]

References

  • Nicoll EA. Fractures of the dorso-lumbar spine. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1949 Aug;31B(3):376-94. [PMID 18148776]
  • Aebi M. Classification of thoracolumbar fractures and dislocations. Eur Spine J. 2010;19 Suppl 1 : S2-7.[PMC2899723]
  • Hunter TB, Peltier LF, Lund PJ. Radiologic History Exhibit Musculoskeletal Eponyms: Who Are Those Guys? Radiographics. 2000 May-Jun;20(3):819-36.[Full text]

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