Aubrey Otis Hampton (September 10, 1900 in

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– July 17, 1955 in

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) was an American

radiologist Radiology ( ) is the medical discipline that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiatio ...

remembered for describing

Hampton's hump Hampton's hump, also called Hampton hump, is a radiologic sign which consists of a shallow wedge-shaped opacity in the periphery of the lung with its base against the pleural surface. It is named after Aubrey Otis Hampton, who first described it ...

and

Hampton's line Hampton's line is a thin, radiolucent line seen across the neck of a gastric ulcer filled with barium sulphate during a barium meal An upper gastrointestinal series, also called a barium swallow, barium study, or barium meal, is a series of ra ...

. He graduated from

Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a medical school and research center in Houston, Texas, within the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. BCM is composed of four academic components: the School of Medicine, the Graduate Sc ...

in 1925, undertook his

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and worked at the

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from 1926. He became chief of radiology at Massachusetts General in 1941, serving as chief of radiology at the

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from 1942 to 1945. Hampton was said to be one of the most accurate radiologists in diagnosing during his era. Hampton died in 1955, aged 54, and is buried in the Hillside Cemetery, in Weare, New Hampshire.

Sources

''Wonders of Radiology'' p. 62-65

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American radiologists 1900 births 1955 deaths People from Collin County, Texas Baylor College of Medicine alumni Physicians of Massachusetts General Hospital 20th-century American physicians {{US-physician-stub