Roy Glenwood Spurling
Col. Roy Glenwood Spurling (1894 – 1968) was an American neurosurgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Spurling manoeuvre or Spurling Test described in 1944 as a provocative test of the cervical spine in cervical radiculopathy
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Holstein–Lewis fracture
Holstein–Lewis fracture: simple spiral fracture of the distal third of the shaft of humerus with distal bone fragment displaced and the proximal end deviated toward the radial side
Gwilym B. Lewis
Gwilym Bill Lewis (1914-2009) American Orthopedic Surgeon. With Arthur Holstein - eponymously affiliated with the Holstein–Lewis fracture (1963)
Arthur Holstein
Arthur Holstein (1913-2000) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon with Gwilym Lewis described the Holstein–Lewis fracture (1963)
Frederick Roeck Thompson
Frederick Roeck Thompson (1907–1983) was an American orthopedic surgeon. Developed a cemented vitallium prosthesis with a distinctive flared collar independent of Austin Moore.
Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen
Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen (1886 – 1953) was a Norwegian born, American Orthopaedic surgeon. Smith-Petersen Vitallium mould arthroplasty (1948)
Robert Garden
Robert Symon Garden (1910 - 1982) was a Scottish Orthopaedic surgeon. Garden classification of intracapsular femoral neck fractures
Martin Kirschner
Martin Kirschner (1879-1942) was a German surgeon. Significant contribution to general surgery; orthopaedic surgery; traumatology; anaesthesiology and pain therapy
Douglas Argyll Robertson
Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson (1837–1909) was a Scottish surgeon and ophthalmologist. Eponym: Argyll Robertson pupils
Hans Reiter
Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (1881-1969) was a German physician and social hygienist. Associated with Reiter Syndrome - known now as Reactive arthritis
Hans Asperger
Biography Medical Eponyms Asperger syndrome Major Publications References
Friedrich Wegener
Friedrich Wegener (1907-1990) was a German pathologist. Affiliated with Wegener granulomatosis, now termed granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA)