Alpha-Gal Syndrome
Alpha-gal syndrome explained: tick bites, delayed red meat allergy, cetuximab anaphylaxis, and the clues that linked them.
History of fluorescein
Fluorescein: history, chemistry and modern eye uses—corneal staining, Seidel leak test, Jones drainage test and retinal angiography.
Adrenaline or epinephrine?
Adrenaline or epinephrine? Based on the 'usage argument'; 'historical precedent' and 'etymological derivation'...
Lorenz Böhler
Lorenz Böhler (1885-1973) Austrian trauma surgeon, founder of organised accident care, Böhler angle, and controversial Nazi-era figure.
MacGyver the Foley
Foley balloon tamponade can temporarily control catastrophic neck, axillary and groin bleeding, buying time for imaging and definitive care in trauma.
Albert Henry Freiberg
Albert Henry Freiberg (1868-1940), American orthopaedic surgeon who described Freiberg infraction and helped advance orthopaedics and disability rehabilitation.
Ernst Baumann
Ernst Baumann (1890-1978). Swiss surgeon and traumatologist associated with the Baumann angle, elbow fracture care and the founding of the AO.
C. H. Joseph Chang
C. H. Joseph Chang (1929–2017), Korean-American radiologist known for Chang sign and pioneering work in mammography and dedicated breast CT imaging.
Fleischner sign
Fleischner sign: prominent central pulmonary artery enlargement in pulmonary embolism, with history, mechanism, imaging features and diagnostic relevance.
Ombrédanne–Armingeat syndrome
Ombrédanne–Armingeat syndrome: historical infant postoperative pallor–hyperthermia syndrome and relationship to malignant hyperthermia.
Tönnis classification
Tönnis classification for developmental hip dysplasia: radiographic grades, key landmarks, limitations, historical development and the IHDI system
Felix Fleischner
Felix Fleischner (1893–1969), Austrian-American chest radiologist known for Fleischner sign, Fleischner lines and the Fleischner Society.