- Quick Reference Material
- Drugs
- Preface
- Preface to the 1<sup>st</sup> Edition
- Conflicts of interest: none declared
- Understanding our patients
- What happens when two ward rounds collide?
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements for the ninth edition
- How to use this book
- A note on the use of pronouns
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Amendments and Errata
- Amendments and Errata to Eighth Edition
- 1 Obstetrics
- 2 Paediatrics
- 3 Gynaecology
- 4 Psychiatry
- 5 Ophthalmology
- 6 Primary care
- 7 Ear, nose and throat diseases
- 8 Dermatology
- 9 Anaesthesia
- 10 Unusual eponymous syndromes
- 11 Orthopaedics and trauma
- 12 Pre-hospital immediate care
- Chapter references and further reading
- Weblinks for Eighth Edition
- Weblinks for Seventh Edition
- Weblinks for Sixth Edition
- Index
(p. 638) Unusual eponymous syndromes
- Chapter:
- (p. 638) Unusual eponymous syndromes
- Author(s):
Judith Collier
, Murray Longmore
, and Keith Amarakone
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199591183.003.0010
See also
To have any disease is unfortunate, but to have a rare disease is doubly so: the patient must often wait for ages for a diagnosis, and then he must contend with his physician’s lifelong morbid interest in him. Having a rare disease is common! (∼30 million in Europe): 5000 diseases have prevalences of 〈1:2000....
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- Quick Reference Material
- Drugs
- Preface
- Preface to the 1<sup>st</sup> Edition
- Conflicts of interest: none declared
- Understanding our patients
- What happens when two ward rounds collide?
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements for the ninth edition
- How to use this book
- A note on the use of pronouns
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Amendments and Errata
- Amendments and Errata to Eighth Edition
- 1 Obstetrics
- 2 Paediatrics
- 3 Gynaecology
- 4 Psychiatry
- 5 Ophthalmology
- 6 Primary care
- 7 Ear, nose and throat diseases
- 8 Dermatology
- 9 Anaesthesia
- 10 Unusual eponymous syndromes
- 11 Orthopaedics and trauma
- 12 Pre-hospital immediate care
- Chapter references and further reading
- Weblinks for Eighth Edition
- Weblinks for Seventh Edition
- Weblinks for Sixth Edition
- Index