Mallory-Weiss syndrome
Mallory–Weiss syndrome: upper GI bleeding from gastroesophageal tears. History, key figures, first descriptions, diagnosis, and treatment.
Tag Georges Dieulafoy
Dieulafoy Lesion
Dieulafoy’s lesion: minute gastric erosion over a large arteriole, causing massive GI bleeding. First defined as exulceratio simplex in 1898.
Georges Dieulafoy
Georges Dieulafoy (1839–1911), French physician, pioneer of gastroenterology; remembered for Dieulafoy lesion, triad(s), and aspirator
A vivid grouping
Adrien Barrère (1874-1931) produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine. First lithograph 'a vivid grouping' in 1903