Category Eponym
Józef Dietl (1804–1878) 680

Józef Dietl

Józef Dietl (1804–1878) was a Polish physician, politician, professor and rector. Eponym: Dietl's crisis ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO)

Barlow Syndrome 680

Barlow syndrome

Barlow syndrome (primary billowing mitral leaflet syndrome (BMLS)). Auscultatory findings of late systolic murmur with non-ejection ('mid-late') systolic click

John Brereton Barlow (1924-2008) 680

John Barlow

John Brereton Barlow (1924-2008) was a South African cardiologist. Barlow described mitral valve prolapse (eponymously known as Barlow’s syndrome) in 1963

Frederic Jay Cotton (1869 - 1939) 340 2

Frederic Cotton

Frederic Jay Cotton (1869–1939) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Cotton fracture (trimalleolar fracture) and Cotton-Loader position (hyper-flexed wrist with ulna deviation in closed reduction of distal radius fractures)

eponym LITFL 340

William Hammond

William Alexander Hammond (1828-1900) was an American neurologist and military physician. Hammond was one of the most colourful and controversial figures in the history of American medicine

eponym LITFL 340

Adolphe Pinard

Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934) was a French obstetrician. Inventor of the Pinard horn (fetoscope) and Pinard Obstetric Palpation

eponym LITFL 340

Albert Hoffa

Albert Hoffa (1859-1907) was a German orthopedic surgeon. eponymously affiliated with a distal femur fracture (1888); an operation for congenital hip dislocations (1890); the development of a system of massage therapy, the Hoffa system (1893); and the Hoffa fat pad

Leopold-Von-Schrötter-Ritter-von-Kristelli-1837-1908 340

Leopold Von Schrötter

Leopold Schrötter Ritter von Kristelli (1837-1908) an Austrian internal physician. He is known for his description of effort thrombosis (upper limb DVT) eponymously termed Paget-Shroetter syndrome in 1884.

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976)

Irving Stein

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976) was an American gynaecologist. remembered for his contribution to the field of infertility and eponymously for the Stein–Leventhal Syndrome (1934)

William Cowper

William Cowper (1666-1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist. Cowper's gland and Cowper's fluid 1699 as well as defining capillaries, atherosclerosis and aortic stenosis