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Seldinger technique 680

Seldinger Technique

Seldinger Technique a technique for safe percutaneous access to vessels and hollow organs that is widely used today. Sven Ivar Seldinger (1921 – 1998)

Rutherford Morison pouch 340

Rutherford Morison pouch

In 1894, Morison published his anatomic description of the hepatorenal space; its role in the surgical treatment of gallbladder disease; and proposed the value of postoperative drainage of that space.

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Löffler syndrome

Löffler (Loeffler) syndrome is a transient, self-limiting, and benign pulmonary eosinophilia, characterised by pulmonary opacities on X-ray, elevated blood eosinophils and an acute onset of potential symptoms of mainly cough and dyspnoea.

Wilhelm Löffler (1887-1972) 340

Wilhelm Löffler

Wilhelm Löffler (1887 – 1972) was a Swiss physician. Löffler is eponymously associated with two clinical manifestations of eosinophilia which he described: transient pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (Löffler syndrome, 1932) and endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler endocarditis, 1936).

François Calot

Jean-François Calot (1861-1944) was a French surgeon. Eponymously associated with Calot’s Triangle (cystohepatic triangle) (1890)

John Cyprian Phipps Williams (1922 - ) 680

John Williams

John Cyprian Phipps Williams (1922 - ) New Zealand cardiologist. Eponymously remembered for Williams syndrome (1961)