Category Orthopaedics

Vincenz Czerny

Biography Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Paget disease of bone Paget defined the modern clinical entity in a paper read in 1876 and published in 1877, naming it osteitis deformans. Although Czerny had used the term Ostitis deformans in 1873…

Léon Clément Le Fort (1829 – 1893) 680 3

Léon Clément Le Fort

Léon Clément Le Fort (1829 – 1893) was a French surgeon. Eponym: Wagstaffe-Le Fort fracture (1886); Le Fort Operation for uterine prolapse; Le Fort amputation; Le Fort Male Catheter; and Le Fort sound. Godfather of FOAM 'Liberté de l'enseignement'

Carl Hueter (1838-1882) 340

Carl Hueter

Carl Hueter (1838 - 1882) was a German Surgeon. Remembered for his contribution to the Hueter-Volkmann law (1862) with Richard von Volkmann (1830 - 1889)

Dislocated? Put your shoulder into it!

Shoulder dislocations. Few procedures are more fulfilling in the emergency department. A little intra-articular lidocaine, some ketamine (always the answer), some propofol, and you’ve nearly instantaneously fixed a painful condition. Thankfully we’ve moved on from the barbaric techniques pictured below.…

Lazar K. Lazarević (Лазаp К. Лазаревић) (1851 – 1891) 1200

Laza Lazarević

Lazar K. Lazarević (Лазаp К. Лазаревић) (1851 - 1891) was a Serbian psychiatrist, neurologist and writer

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Roy Glenwood Spurling

Col. Roy Glenwood Spurling (1894 – 1968) was an American neurosurgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Spurling manoeuvre or Spurling Test described in 1944 as a provocative test of the cervical spine in cervical radiculopathy

Frederick Roeck Thompson

Frederick Roeck Thompson (1907–1983) was an American orthopedic surgeon. Developed a cemented vitallium prosthesis with a distinctive flared collar independent of Austin Moore.

Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen (1886 – 1953) 340

Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen

Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen (1886 – 1953) was a Norwegian born, American Orthopaedic surgeon. Smith-Petersen Vitallium mould arthroplasty (1948)

Robert Symon Garden (1910 - 1982) 340

Robert Garden

Robert Symon Garden (1910 - 1982) was a Scottish Orthopaedic surgeon. Garden classification of intracapsular femoral neck fractures

Martin Kirschner (1879 – 1942) 340

Martin Kirschner

Martin Kirschner (1879-1942) was a German surgeon. Significant contribution to general surgery; orthopaedic surgery; traumatology; anaesthesiology and pain therapy