Arthur Bond Cecil
Arthur Bond Cecil (1885 - 1967) was an American surgeon and urologist. Cole-Cecil murmur (1908) of aortic regurgitation; Cecil operation (1946) for hypospadias repair.
Category Eponym
Rufus Cole
Rufus Ivory Cole (1872 - 1966) was an American physician, and the first director of the Rockefellar Institute for Medical Research. Cole-Cecil Murmur
Aortic Regurgitation Eponymythology
Chronological review of the clinical signs aortic regurgitation / insufficiency. 31 eponyms proposed by Ashrafian (2005) and Zacek (2018)
Allen Oldfather Whipple
Allen Oldfather Whipple (1881-1963) American surgeon. Eponym: Whipple procedure (1936) pancreaticoduodenectomy and Whipple triad (1938)
Elena Sgarbossa
Elena B. Sgarbossa is a cardiologist, medical writer and translator. Eponymously affiliated with Sgarbossa criteria with LBBB in AMI
Alix Joffroy
Alix Joffroy (1844 - 1908) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. Eponymously affiliated with Joffroy sign in Graves ophthalmopathy
David A. Rytand
David Abramson Rytland (1909 - 1991) was an American physician and cardiologist. Rytand murmur (1946), Rytand's law (1951)
Esther L. Bloomberg
Esther Lillian Bloomberg (1907 - 1997) was an American technical chemist. Albright-Butler-Bloomberg disease (1937)
Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar (1909 – 1974) was an American Obsgtetric anesthesiologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Apgar score - to assess newborn child health.
Tjitske Kleefstra
Tjitske Kleefstra is a Dutch Clinical Geneticist. Kleefstras syndrom (Kleefstra syndrome); previously known as the 9q subtelomere deletion syndrome (9qSTDS)
Felix Fleischner
Felix George Fleischner (1893 - 1969) was an Austrian radiologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Fleischner sign; one of several described CXR signs of pulmonary embolus
Nils Westermark
Nils Johan Hugo Westermark (1892 - 1980) was a Swedish radiologist. Westermark sign (1938) of relative oligemia on CXR in pulmonary embolism