Category Medical Specialty
Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (1854-1900) 680

Sergei Korsakoff

Sergei Sergeievich Korsakoff (1854 - 1900) Серге́й Серге́евич Ко́рсаков Russian neuropsychiatrist, identified Korsakoff syndrome and pioneered humane psychiatric care and memory disorder research.

Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875-1939) 680

Henry Pancoast

Henry Khunrath Pancoast (1875 – 1939) was an American radiologist. The Pancoast tumour and Pancoast syndrome is named after him

Pancoast tumour 1924 680

Pancoast Tumour

Pancoast Tumour is a primary bronchogenic carcinoma which arises in the apex of the lung at the superior pulmonary sulcus.

Pancoast Syndrome 1924 680

Pancoast Syndrome

Pancoast Syndrome occurs secondary to local compression of brachial plexus and sympathetic chain by superior (pulmonary) sulcus tumors.

Frederic Jay Cotton (1869 - 1939) 340 2

Frederic Cotton

Frederic Jay Cotton (1869–1939) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Cotton fracture (trimalleolar fracture) and Cotton-Loader position (hyper-flexed wrist with ulna deviation in closed reduction of distal radius fractures)

William Alexander Hammond (1828-1900) 680

William Hammond

William A. Hammond (1828–1900), U.S. Surgeon General and neurology pioneer, described athetosis, reformed military medicine, and authored a key neurology textbook.