Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 356
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 356 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
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Appendicitis – the eponymous examination
Authors eponymously associated with abdominal signs, symptoms, investigation and management of appendicitis
Murphy’s sign
Murphy’s sign is elicited in patients with acute cholecystitis by asking the patient to take in and hold a deep breath while palpating the right subcostal area. John Benjamin Murphy (1903)
John B. Murphy
John Benjamin Murphy (1857-1916) was an American physician and abdominal surgeon. Eponymously remembered for Murphy’s Sign (...but not as you know it); Murphy's triad; Murphy's punch test and many more