Burrill B. Crohn
Burrill B. Crohn (1884–1983), pioneering gastroenterologist and namesake of Crohn’s disease. Discover his life, work, and medical legacy
Category Gastroenterology
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.
Barrett’s oesophagus
Barrett’s oesophagus: reflux-driven columnar metaplasia of the distal oesophagus and precursor to adenocarcinoma—history, key figures, diagnosis, management
Ivor Lewis
Ivor Lewis (1895–1982) was a Welsh surgeon. Eponymously remembered for 1946 description of Ivor Lewis Oesophagectomy
Network Five: Gastroenterology
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 17 - Gastroenterology reviewing papers on upper GI bleeding.
Saul Mackler
Saul Allen Mackler (1913-2007) was an American thoracic Surgeon. Eponym: Mackler's triad (1952)
Rigler triad
Rigler triad; Imaging findings in patients with gallstone ileus with an ectopic gallstone causing small bowel obstruction, and pneumobilia
Léon Bouveret
Léon Bouveret (1850-1929) was a French internal medicine physician. Eponymous terms Maladie de Bouveret (1889) and Bouveret Syndrome (1895)