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Bibliographic title search for medical cardiological "signs" (eponyms)
Takayoshi Kanie1, Atsushi Mizuno1, Fujimi Kawai2
1Department of Cardiology St. Luke's International Hospital Tokyo Japan.
Journal of General and Family Medicine
|November 23, 2018
Abstract
Background:
The word "sign" refers to important physical findings or observations that are useful in diagnosis; however, there are no scientific reviews of "signs." The aim of this paper was to list and review these terms using a bibliographic approach.
Methods:
We performed a title search of "sign" using a bibliographic search and review approach in MEDLINE and EMBASE.
Results:
We detected 398 papers including 217 medical signs in cardiology.
Conclusions:
This is the first literature review of eponyms specifically for signs using a bibliographic method, which is useful for the discussion of the appropriateness of eponyms.