Frank Holdsworth
Sir Frank Wild Holdsworth (1904 – 1969) was a British Orthopaedic Surgeon. Eponym the Holdsworth fracture
Category Orthopaedics
Mario Bertolotti
Mario Bertolotti (1876-1957) was an Italian radiologist. Bertolotti syndrome (1917) L5 transverse processes and sacrum Sacralisation
Baastrup disease
Baastrup sign (kissing spines) refers to an orthopaedic condition / radiological sign with enlargement and approximation of adjacent spinous processes with normal intervertebral disc height and neuroforamina
Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
Heinrich Ernst Albers-Schönberg (1865 – 1921) was a German radiologist. Albers-Schönberg disease (osteopetrosis, marble bone disease)
Albers-Schönberg disease
Albers-Schönberg disease is the most common form of osteopetrosis. Also known as autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (ADO II)
Winking owl sign
One of the first signs of vertebral metastases is disappearance of the pedicle on the AP X-ray. This is known as the 'absent pedicle' or 'winking owl sign'.
John Thomas sign
Throckmorton sign (John Thomas sign) where Penis Points to Pathology on X-ray. Tom Bentley Throckmorton (1885-1961) was an American neurologist
Segond fracture
Segond fracture: Avulsion fracture (small) of the lateral surface of the lateral tibial condyle. Paul Ferdinand Segond (1851-1912) described 1879
Tom Throckmorton
Tom Bentley Throckmorton (1885-1961) was an American neurologist. Eponym: Throckmorton sign (John Thomas sign); Throckmorton reflex
Cotton fracture
Cotton fracture (trimalleolar fracture) described in 1915 by Frederic Jay Cotton (1869-1939); fracture of the ankle that involving the lateral malleolus, medial malleolus and distal posterior aspect of the tibia (posterior malleolus).
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Silvio Rolando
Silvio Rolando da Carasco (1873-1949) Italian general surgeon in Genoa. Rolando Fracture (1910) three-part base of first metacarpal fracture