Grey Turner sign
Grey Turner sign refers to bruising of the flanks. Originally described 1919 (published 1920) by George Grey Turner (1877–1951) most commonly associated with acute pancreatitis
Category General Surgery
George Grey Turner
George Grey Turner (1877–1951) English surgeon. Eponym: Grey Turner sign after description of flank ecchymosis in 1919 (published 1920)
Blue Scrotum Sign of Bryant
Scrotal ecchymosis associated with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) first described in 1903 by John Henry Bryant (1867 – 1906)
John Henry Bryant
John Henry Bryant (1867–1906) English physician. Eponym: Blue Scrotum Sign of Bryant associated with ruptured abdominal aortic anurysm (1903)
Fox’s sign
Fox's sign: non-traumatic ecchymosis over the upper outer aspect of the thigh secondary to abdominal haemorrhage. First described by English surgeon John Adrian Fox in 1966
John A. Fox
John Adrian Fox English surgeon. Eponym: Fox's sign (1966) non-traumatic ecchymosis upper outer thigh with abdominal haemorrhage
Stabler Sign
Stabler Sign - atraumatic abdominal wall ecchymosis in the inguinal-pubic area associated with ectopic pregnancy. Francis (Frank) Edward Stabler (1902–1967)
Sir William Stokes (surgeon)
Sir William Stokes (1838 – 1900) was an Irish surgeon, son of William Stokes (1804–1878) who was a famaous Irish physician.
John B. Murphy
John Benjamin Murphy (1857-1916) was an American physician and abdominal surgeon. Eponymously remembered for Murphy’s Sign (...but not as you know it); Murphy's triad; Murphy's punch test and many more
Patrick Collins
Patrick Gerard Collins (1923 - 1999) was an Irish general surgeon specialising in biliary tract surgery. Collins sign (2009)
Charles Lockwood
Charles Barrett Lockwood (1856 - 1914) was an English surgeon. Lockwood sign of chronic appendicitis, described by Colt in 1932
Allen Oldfather Whipple
Allen Oldfather Whipple (1881-1963) American surgeon. Eponym: Whipple procedure (1936) pancreaticoduodenectomy and Whipple triad (1938)