Rigler triad
Rigler triad; Imaging findings in patients with gallstone ileus with an ectopic gallstone causing small bowel obstruction, and pneumobilia
Category Gastroenterology
Dieulafoy Lesion
Dieulafoy’s lesion: minute gastric erosion over a large arteriole, causing massive GI bleeding. First defined as exulceratio simplex in 1898.
Georges Dieulafoy
Georges Dieulafoy (1839–1911), French physician, pioneer of gastroenterology; remembered for Dieulafoy lesion, triad(s), and aspirator
T. Kennedy Dalziel
Scottish surgeon T.K. Dalziel (1861–1924) early description of Crohn’s disease, led children’s surgery in Glasgow, and was knighted for WWI medical service.
Gordon D. Oppenheimer
Gordon David Oppenheimer (1900 - 1974) was an American surgeon and urologist.
Leon Ginzburg
Leon Ginzburg (1898–1988), American surgeon Mount Sinai and Beth Israel; co-describer of regional ileitis (Crohn’s disease).
Burrill B. Crohn
Burrill B. Crohn (1884–1983), pioneering gastroenterologist and namesake of Crohn’s disease. Discover his life, work, and medical legacy
Frank Mallory
Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American pathologist; pioneer of histological stains, Mallory bodies in alcoholic liver disease
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Peutz-Jeghers-syndrome: A Syndrome gastrointestinal polyposis characterized by specific melanin pigmentations of the skin and mucous membranes
Johannes Peutz
Johannes Peutz (1886–1957), Dutch internist, first described Peutz-Jeghers syndrome in 1921; pioneer of clinical diagnostics in The Hague.
Harold Jeghers
Harold Jeghers (1904–1990), US internist, co-described Peutz-Jeghers syndrome in 1949; pioneer educator and founder of the Jeghers Medical Index
Thomas sign
Thomas's sign: Silver, aluminium or metallic coloured stools. Caused by the combination of cholestatic (acholic) pale stools secondary to CBD obstruction and the black-tar colour malaena.