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 the Younger (1655 - 1738) was a Danish physician and anatomist. Bartholin Glands (1677)
Roberta A. Pagon (1945 - ) pediatrician and geneticist. Pagon syndrome - Anemia sideroblastic and spinocerebellar ataxia (1985)
Renata Laxova (1931 - ) Czech-American medical geneticist. Neu-Laxova syndrome (NLS) (1971)
Fuller Albright (1900 - 1969) was an American endocrinologist.
Measuring patient outcomes is at the core of prognostication and research in neurocritical care, but there is increasing concern that the way we define and measure outcomes is failing to capture the patients experience.
Florence Chisholm Dudley (1902 - 1962) was an American assistant in medical genetics. Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (1943)
Ekbom syndrome or delusional parasitosis is characterised by delusions, symptoms of formication and signs such as self-mutilation or the matchbox-sign
Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925) was a Scottish cardiologist and General Practitioner. Mackenzie was a pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias known as the father of British cardiology
Eeva Therman-Patau (1916 - 2004) was a Finnish-American cytogeneticist. Mrs. X Chromosome
Description Pain and paraesthesia along the inner (medial) aspect of the thigh, down to the knee; and pain on internal rotation of the hip along the distribution of the obturator nerve. Caused by compression of the obturator nerve most commonly…
The rehabilitation of people who have cognitive impairment after TBI should be based on an understanding of what is the likely cause of that impairment. Des Gorman