Category General Surgery
James Sherren (1872-1945) 680

James Sherren

James Sherren (1872-1945) British General surgeon. Eponym: Sherren's triangle - area of hyperaesthesia associated with appendicitis

Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578-1625) 680

Adriaan van den Spiegel

Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625), Flemish anatomist; described Spigelian line, fascia, hernia, and liver lobe in his posthumous atlas.

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) 680

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), father of pathology, pioneered clinico-anatomical correlation; his De sedibus shaped modern medicine.

Vincenz Alexander Bohdalek (1801–1883) 680

Vincent Bochdalek

Vincenz Alexander Bochdalek (1801–1883), Bohemian anatomist who described congenital diaphragmatic hernia and the choroid plexus ‘flower basket’.

Alfred Jean Fournier (1832-1914) 340

Jean Alfred Fournier

Alfred Jean Fournier (1832-1914) was a French Dermatovereologist specialising in congenital syphillis, stressing the importance of syphilis as a cause of degenerative diseases and parasyphilitic conditions.

Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856-1936) 680

Charles Ballance

Sir Charles Ballance (1856–1936), pioneer of neurosurgery and otology, first performed facial nerve crossover anastomosis in 1895—an enduring milestone.

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Blue Scrotum Sign of Bryant

Bryant’s sign: Scrotal ecchymosis associated with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) first described in 1903 by John Henry Bryant (1867-1906)

Thomas sign AM Thomas Ogilvie 1955

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.