Grisel Syndrome
Spontaneous, nontraumatic rotatory subluxation of the atlantoaxial joint following peripharyngeal inflammation or ENT surgical procedures
Category Orthopaedics
Köhler disease
Köhler disease: rare, self-limiting, avascular necrosis (osteochondrosis) of the navicular bone in children. Described in 1908 by Alban Köhler (1874–1947)
Freiberg infraction
Freiberg infraction: osteochondrosis of the metatarsal heads (typically the 2nd metatarsal head) described by Albert Freiberg in 1914, Alban Köhler in 1915
Thomas George Morton
Thomas George Morton (1835 – 1903) was an American surgeon. Eponyms include Morton's neuroma; neuralgia and metarsalgia
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD): avascular necrosis (AVN) of the proximal femoral head. The disease is usually insidious in onset and may occur after an injury to the hip.
Barton fracture
Barton fracture: Intra-articular distal radius fracture with radiocarpal joint subluxation. John Rhea Barton described Barton fracture in 1838.
Mueller–Weiss disease
Müller-Weiss syndrome , or spontaneous osteonecrosis of the tarsal navicular in adults, is a rare cause of chronic medial midfoot pain.
Joseph François Malgaigne
Joseph François Malgaigne (1806-1865) French Surgeon medical historian and critical thinker. Malgaine fracture (1847) unstable pelvic fracture
Osteopoikilosis
Osteopoikilosis is a autosomal dominant sclerosing bony dysplasia characterized by multiple benign benign sclerotic bone lesions (enostoses) that tend to localize in periarticular osseous regions
Simmonds-Thompson Test
Simmonds-Thompson Test for evaluating achilles tendon rupture. Also known as the Simmonds Test (F.A. Simmonds) or Thompson Test (T. Campbell Thompson)
Hill-Sachs defect
Hill-Sachs lesion (1940) Cortical depression of posterolateral head of the humerus related to impaction of the humeral head
Bado Classification
José Luis Bado (1903-1977) was a Uruguayan surgeon who created the Bado Classification of Monteggia fractures in 1967 to define 4 Types