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)
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)
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)
George Hoyt Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976) was an American physician, pathologist and medical researcher. 1934: Nobel Prize. Whipple disease (1907)
Adriaan van den Spiegel
Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578 – 1625) was a Flemish anatomist and botanist. Spigelian hernia - hernia of the Spiegelian fascia [Hernia de la ligne semilunaire de Spiegel; Spiegel hernia]
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682 – 1771) Italian physician, anatomist and pathologist. Morgagni correlated postmortem pathology and clinical findings