Thomas Fitz-Hugh
Thomas Fitz-Hugh, Jr (1894 – 1963) was an American Surgeon eponymously affiliated with Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome (1930, 1934)
Category Gastroenterology
Charles Dettie Aaron
Charles Dettie Aaron (1866 – 1951) was an American gastroenterologist. Eponym: Aaron sign (1913) in chronic appendicitis
T. Kennedy Dalziel
Biography Born 1861 Surgeon, Western Infirmary, Glasgow Died February 10, 1924 Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Major Publications Dalziel TK. Chronic Interstitial Enteritis. Br Med J 1913; 2: 1068-1070. [Crohn’s disease] Controversies References Obituary. Br Med J 1924; 1: 356. Obituary.…
Gordon D. Oppenheimer
Biography Born June 30, 1900 in New York 1919 – BSc, Columbia College 1922 – MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons 1923 – House officer at the Mount Sinai Hospital 1924 – Pathology training collaborating with Leon Ginzburg (1898 –…
Leon Ginzburg
Biography Born 1898 1947-1967 Director of Surgery Emeritus, Beth Israel Medical Center New York Died 1988 Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Major Publications Crohn BB, Ginzburg L, Oppenheimer GD. Regional ileitis; a pathologic and clinical entity. JAMA, 1932; 99: 1323-1329.…
Burrill Bernard Crohn
Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884 - 1983) was an American gastroenterologist.
Ismar Isidor Boas
Ismar Isidor Boas (1858 - 1938) was a German gastroenterologist. Boas sign and Boas point (1894) Boas algesimeter (1891)
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Peutz-Jeghers-syndrome: A Syndrome gastrointestinal polyposis characterized by specific melanin pigmentations of the skin and mucous membranes
Harold Jeghers
Harold Joseph Jeghers (1904 - 1990) was an American physician. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (1949)
Johannes Peutz
Johannes Laurentius Augustinus Peutz (1886 - 1957) was a Dutch physician. Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (1921)
Einar Meulengracht
Jens Einar Meulengracht (1887 - 1976) was a Danish physician.
Portal vein thrombosis
Portal vein thrombosis: thrombus formation in the portal vein +/- tributaries (superior mesenteric vein, IMV and splenic vein)