Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 214

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 214. Question 1 Who first described the phenomenon of malignant hyperthermia? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet945038639'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink945038639')) Michael Denborough Question 2 Fox’s Sign is not Fox’s Sign! See the correct answer below as Mike Cadogan slowly corrects the wrongs of Wikipedia (and my FFFFs) and the phenomena of “copy and paste”? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1839112721'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1839112721')) Fox’s sign was thought to be: Bruising over the inguinal ligament that occurs in acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis. Named after the the dermatologist George Henry Fox according to Wikipedia. However, George Henry Fox never described this sign but instead “Apocrine miliaria” along with John Addison Fordyce. A chronic itchy papular condition occurring in areas of the skin with apocrine glands especially the axilla of young women. Chronic blockage of the sweat gland ducts with a secondary, non-bacterial inflammatory response to the se...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Frivolous Friday Five apocrine miliaria Charles Maitland fox sign george henry fox john addison fordyce jones fracture malignant hyperthermia michael denborough Newgate pimp Robert Jones smallpox william osler Source Type: blogs