Silvio Rolando
Silvio Rolando da Carasco (1873-1949) Italian general surgeon in Genoa. Rolando Fracture (1910) three-part base of first metacarpal fracture
Category Eponym
Paul Tillaux
Paul Jules Tillaux (1834-1904) French Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Tillaux fracture. First to describe 'Aïe crépitant de Tillaux'
Harry Angelman
Harry Angelman (1915-1996) was an English paediatrician
V. Ray Bennett
V.Ray Bennett (1922 – 1996) was an American engineer whose contributions to respiratory medicine resulted in saving thousands of lives during the Polio epidemic
Ivan Magill
Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill (1888 – 1986) was an Irish Anaesthetist. Epomnymously affiliated with various anaesthetic devices such as the Magill forceps
Josef Jadassohn
Josef Jadassohn (1863 - 1936) was a German dermatologist. Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome (pachyonychia congenita) (1906); Borst-Jadassohn; Jadassohn-Tièche blue naevus; Jadassohn-Bloch Technique
Felix Lewandowsky
Felix Lewandowsky (1879-1921) was a German dermatologist. Jadassohn–Lewandowsky syndrome, Lewandowsky’s syndrome, Lewandowsky–Lutz dysplasia and Lewandowsky tuberculid
Charles J. Aldrich
Charles John Aldrich (1861-1908) American neurologist. Provided early description of Mees lines he termed 'Leuconychia striata arsenicalis transversus'
Florence R. Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953) American anatomist and medical researcher. Early description (1900) of Mees lines of the fingernails secondary to arsenic poisoning
Frank Johnson
Frank Chambliss Johnson (1894 – 1934) was an American pediatrician. Along with Albert Mason Stevens (1884 – 1945), is eponymously affiliated with Stevens-Johnson syndrome
Albert Stevens
Albert Mason Stevens (1884 – 1945) was an American surgeon. Eponym Stevens-Johnson syndrome (with Frank Chambliss Johnson)
Terry’s Nails
Terry's nails are a type of apparent leukonychia, characterized by ground glass opacification of almost the entire nail, with a narrow band of normal, pink nail bed at the distal border, and often with obliteration of the lunula.