Eponyms are a long-standing tradition in medicine. Eponyms usually involve honoring a prominent physician scientist who played a major role in the identification of the disease. Under the right circumstances, a disease becomes well known through the name
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On More Than Fish Eponyms. Book Review: Beolens et al. Eponym Dictionary of Fishes; Whittle Publishing: Caithness, UK, 2023; ISBN: 978-1-84995-498-3 [PDF]
This review deals with the magnificent and monumental ‘Eponym Dictionary of Fishes’, which provides nearly 6500 short biographical sketches for the persons whose name is part of the scientific name (genus and/or species epithet) of a fish formally ...
Daniel Pauly
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Trauma eponyms (1837-1950): a comprehensive historical review. [PDF]
Tekiner H, Yale ES, Draves J, Yale SH.
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The Evaluation of Changing the Eponym Churg–Strauss Syndrome Due to the 2012 Revised International Chapel Hill Consensus Conference Nomenclature of Vasculitides [PDF]
Gökhan Sargın
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Mallet Fracture: I.F. Busch Fracture, W. Busch Fracture or P. Segond Fracture? [PDF]
Background. For several centuries, eponyms have been a convenient means of communication between clinicians. For some eponyms among modern surgeons, controversy over authors priority continues. There is still no consensus on the so-called mallet fracture.
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Warthin Tumor of the Parotid Gland: The History of an Eponym. [PDF]
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Grisel syndrome or atlantoaxial non-traumatic subluxation is a rare entity, poorly described in pediatric literature, although it is a pathology that usually appears in young children. The typical presentation is a torticollis with a previous surgical antecedent (mainly a surgery of the ear, nose, and throat area like adenoidectomy) or after an upper ...
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Bilateral occipital lobe infarct neglect deficit (BLIND) syndrome
Cortical blindness is characterized by loss of vision due to dysfunction of the visual cortices, most commonly secondary to bilateral ischemic infarcts of the occipital lobe.
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THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF TUKULTĪ-NINURTA’S I (1242-1206 BC) [PDF]
The chronology of events during the reign of Tukultī-Ninurta I does not stand out with particular accuracy, which often sparked controversy. In particular, it refers to the irregular sequence of events in the king's records.
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Thasian and Rhodian Stamped Amphorae from Edirne Archaeology and Ethnography Museum
Amphorae are stamped by production centers, especially in the Aegean Region. Stamps, which are epigraphic evidence, provide the date of the layer or context they were found by determining the origin of the amphorae and reveals the commercial relations ...
Fahrettin Ceylan, Erkan Alkaç
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