Alfred Stieda

Eugen Julius Karl Paul Alfred Stieda (1869-1945) was a German Surgeon.

He is eponymously affiliated with the Stieda fracture, Pellegrini-Stieda lesion, and Pellegrini-Stieda syndrome.

Biography

• Born on December 11, 1869 in Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia); son of the anatomist Christian Hermann Ludwig Stiel (1837-1918)
• Tertiary education from the universities of Tübingen, Königsberg and Geneva
• 1891 – Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia); ‘Ueber die Kloake und das Receptaculum seminis der weiblichen Tritonen‘
• Worked at the medical clinic in Rostock, women’s clinic in Giessen, and surgical clinic in Königsberg
• 1905 – Habilitated at the department of surgery in Königsberg
• 1907 – Appointed titular professor of surgery, University of Königsberg
• 1908 – Head physician at the surgical department of the Red Cross Hospital in Bertaheim
• Died on April 30, 1945 in Stralsund, Germany

Medical Eponyms

Köhler-Pellegrini-Stieda lesion (Pellegrini-Stieda disease)

Ossified post-traumatic lesions at (or near) the medial femoral collateral ligament adjacent to the margin of the medial femoral condyle

Stieda presented 5 males (aged 20-48 years) following traumatic injury with knee radiograph findings of semilunar-shaped shadows around the superior border of the femoral medial epicondyle in a 1908 publication. On cadaveric dissection, he found the lesion to be situated at the origin of the medial head of the gastrocnemius.

…it undoubtedly concerns a rupture of the upper part of the internal epicondyle, and in our clinically observed cases, we may also well suppose an analog injury, especially since the position of the shadow in the X-ray fits more with a tear of the muscle insertion (upper portion of the internal epicondyle) than with a tear of the insertion of the inner sideband (lower portion of the internal epicondyle). Further, whether the projection comes off by direct force or because of muscle pull is an interesting question.

Stieda 1908

• Pellegrini-Stieda syndrome – restricted range of movement and pain in the presence of the Pellegrini-Stieda lesion.
• Stieda Fracture – avulsion injury of the medial collateral ligament at the medial femoral condyle

Major Publications

• Stieda A. Ueber die Visirplastik zum Ersatz der Unterlippe. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, 1899; 25(13): 201-203
• Stieda A. Beitrag zur Chirurgie der Gallenwege. 1905
• Stieda A. Über umschriebene Knochenverdichtungen im Bereich der Substantia spongiosa im Röntgenbilde. Bruns’ Beiträge zur klinischen Chirurgie. 1905; 45: 700–703
• Stieda A. Uber eine typische verletzung am unteren femurende. Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie, 1908; 85: 815-826
• Stieda A. Ueber einen im jugendlichen Alter Kastrierten. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, 1908; 34(13): 543-544
• Stieda A. Coxa valga rachitica. Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, 1909; 35(30): 1301-1304

References

Biography

• Bibliography. Stieda, Alfred. WorldCat Identities

Eponymous terms

• Wiegerinck JI, Somford MP. Review of Stieda’s article (1908) on the Pellegrini-Stieda lesion. Journal of ISAKOS: Joint Disorders & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Jul 2016, 1 (4) 214-218.
• Somford MP, Nieuwe Weme RA, Hoornenborg D, Wiegerinck JI, van Raay JJAM, Brouwer RW, Williams A. Biographical background and origin of common eponymous terms in orthopedic surgery: anatomy and fractures in knee surgery. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2018 Jan;28(1):79-84.

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