Category Obstetrics Gynaecology
James Marion Sims (1813-1883) 680

James Marion Sims

American gynecologist James Marion Sims (1813-1883) pioneered vesicovaginal fistula surgery but remains controversial for non-consensual experiments on enslaved women.

Leonardo Gigli (1863-1908)

Leonardo Gigli

Leonardo Gigli (1863-1908) was an Italian surgeon and gynaecologist. Inventor of the Gigli saw for lateralised pubiotomy

Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869-1953) 680

Thomas S. Cullen

Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869 – 1953) was a Canadian gynecologist. Eponymously affiliated with Cullen sign (1918)

Sheehan Syndrome

Sheehan Syndrome

Postpartum hypopituitarism following ischaemic necrosis of the anterior pituitary gland. Pituitary necrosis occurs secondary to hypophyseal portal vessel thrombosis following significant postpartum haemorrhage, hypovolemia, and shock.

eponym LITFL 340

Adolphe Pinard

Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934) was a French obstetrician. Inventor of the Pinard horn (fetoscope) and Pinard Obstetric Palpation

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976)

Irving Stein

Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976) was an American gynaecologist. remembered for his contribution to the field of infertility and eponymously for the Stein–Leventhal Syndrome (1934)