Paul Ferdinand Segond
Paul Ferdinand Segond (1851-1912) French Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Segond fracture (described 1879)
Category Eponym
Joseph Schatzker
Joseph Schatzker (1934 - ) Canadian Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponym: Schatzker classification for tibial plateau fractures (1979)
Robert Bruce Salter
Robert Bruce Salter (1924-2010) was a Canadian surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Salter-Harris Classification along with W. Robert Harris (1963)
W. Robert Harris
W. Robert Harris (1922-2005) was a Canadian Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponymously associated with the Salter-Harris Classification along with Robert Bruce Salter (1963)
Alan Apley
Alan Graham Apley (1914 – 1996) was a British Orthopaedic Surgeon famous for describing the Apley grind test in knee meniscal injury and for his essential orthopaedic reference text: Apley's System of Orthopaedics and Fractures (1959)
Thomas Porter McMurray
Thomas Porter McMurray (1887 – 1949) was a British orthopaedic surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the McMurray Test to assess knee joint and meniscus
Amédée Bonnet
Amédée Bonnet (1809-1858) was a French orthopaedic surgeon. Described as the grandfather of knee and ligament surgery.
William Halsted
William Stewart Halsted (1852 – 1922) was an American surgeon.
Walther Kausch
Walther Carl Eduard Kausch (1867 – 1928) was a German surgeon. 1907 performed first successful partial pancreatoduodenectomy (Whipple)
Alessandro Codivilla
Alessandro Codivilla (1861 – 1912) was an Italian surgeon. Original description of the first pancreatic head resection 1898 (Whipple)
Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra
Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra (1816-1880) was an Austrian physician and dermatologist. Founder New Vienna School of Dermatology
Francis J Shepherd
Francis J. Shepherd (1851-1929) British/Canadian Surgeon eponymously associated with Shepherd's Fracture - lateral tubercle of the posterior talar process