Osgood-Schlatter disease
Osgood–Schlatter disease (OSD) Osteochondrosis or traction apophysitis of the tibial tubercle. Paget (1891), Osgood (1903), Schlatter (1903)
Category Orthopaedics
Renzo Corno
Renzo Corno Montini (1927 - 1965) was an Italian pediatric orthopedic surgeon. Corno's disease; familial form of Sprengel's deformity.
Maurice David Sachs
Maurice David Sachs (1909-1987) was an American radiologist who worked with Harold Arthur Hill (1901-1973). Eponym: Hill-Sachs lesion (1940)
Albers-Schönberg disease
Albers-Schönberg disease is the most common form of osteopetrosis. Also known as autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (ADO II)
Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (1865 – 1921) was a German radiologist. Albers-Schönberg disease (osteopetrosis, marble bone disease)
Auguste Nélaton
Auguste Nélaton (1807 – 1873) was a French physician and surgeon. Along with Wilhelm Roser eponymously affiliated with the Roser-Nélaton line
Lorenz Böhler
Lorenz Böhler (1885 – 1973) Austrian Physician and Surgeon. Eponymously associated with Böhler angle – a measurement on a lateral foot x-ray to determine calcaneal injuries
Ruth Wynne-Davies
Ruth Wynne-Davies (1926 – 2012) was an English orthopedic surgeon and geneticist. Wynne-Davies Criteria for Ligamentous Laxity (1970)
Mary Broadfoot Walker
Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888 - 1974) was a Scottish physician. Mary Walker effect (1934); neostigmine and myasthenia gravis
Finkelstein Test
A test for diagnosing de Quervain’s tenosynovitis, or snapping thumb syndrome. First described in 1930 by Harry Finkelstein (1883-1975)
Harry Finkelstein
Harry Finkelstein (1883 – 1975) was an American Surgeon. Eponym - Finkelstein's Test (Modified Eichhoff test) to confirm De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
De Quervain disease
De Quervain described chronic tenosynovitis thickening the tendon sheath of the abductor muscle of the thumb and of the extensor short muscle of the thumb.