José Luis Bado
José Luis Bado (1903 – 1977) was a Uruguayan surgeon. Eponymously linked to the Bado classification of Monteggia fractures.
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Riccardo Galeazzi
Riccardo Galeazzi (1866-1952) was a pioneering Italian orthopaedic surgeon. The eponymous Galeazzi fracture is named after him.
Giovanni Battista Monteggia
Giovanni Battista Montéggia (1762-1815) was an Italian surgeon. Eponym: Monteggia fracture (1812) ulna fracture, radial head dislocation
William Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) was an English physicist, mathematician, and chemist. Bragg's Law, Bragg Spectrometer and Bragg-Paul Pulsator
Thomas sign
Thomas's sign: Silver, aluminium or metallic coloured stools. Caused by the combination of cholestatic (acholic) pale stools secondary to CBD obstruction and the black-tar colour malaena.
James Douglas
James Douglas (1675 - 1742) was a Scottish physician and anatomist. Pouch of Douglas; folds of Douglas; and line of Douglas
Gilbert Dalldorf
Biography Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography
Sylvester McGinn
Biography Medical Eponyms McGinn-White pattern (1935) SI QIII TIII pattern on ECG representing right heart strain in an acute pulmonary embolism. McGinn and White first described the so-called S1Q3T3 pattern in five patients with acute cor pulmonale secondary to pulmonary embolism. (1)The…
Wladimir Bechterew
Biography There are only two persons who know the anatomy of the brain perfectly – God and Bekhterev. Friedrich Kopsch Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
Rutherford Morison
James Rutherford Morison (1853 - 1939) was an English surgeon. Pouch of Rutherford Morison* (1894) BIPP: Bismuth, iodoform and paraffin paste
Berkeley Moynihan
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan of Leeds (1865-1936) was an English General surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Moynihan sign (1905), an adaptation of Murphy's sign, a method used to differentiate pain in the right upper quadrant.
Sven-Ivar Seldinger
Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921 – 1998) was a Swedish Radiologist. Seldinger Technique a technique for safe percutaneous access to vessels and hollow organs that is widely used today.