George Quentin Chance

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]