Category Medical Specialty

Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud

Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (1796 - 1881) was a French physician. Bouillaud disease (1835), Bouillaud sign (1846), Bouillaud Law of Coincidence (1836)

Charles James Blasius Williams

Biography Medical Eponyms Williams sign (1840) Systolic protrusion of the precordium and retractions of the epigastrium in patients with adherent pericarditis Williams described the findings of inspection and palpation which he identified in patients with adherent pericarditis in his 1840…

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Hoffa fracture

Unicondylar coronal fracture of the lateral femoral condyle. Rare intra-articular distal femur injury. Axial compression to the knee with transmission of the ground reaction force through the tibial plateau to the femoral condyles.

Pierre Nicolas Gerdy

Biography Born 1797 Died 1856 Medical Eponyms Gerdy tubercle is the prominence on the lateral side of the proximal tibia where the iliotibial band (ITB) and tibialis anterior muscle attach Gerdy’s Safe Zone () Major Publications Gerdy P-N. Essai de…

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West syndrome

West Syndrome (Infantile Spasms) - Triad of infantile spasms, developmental delay and hypsarrhythmia on EEG. First described by William James West on his son in 1841

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Augusto Pellegrini

Augusto Pellegrini (1877-1958) Italian Surgeon. Pioneer in the field of prosthetic limbs. Epomyously affiliated with Pellegrini-Stieda disease

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Gissane angle

Gissane Angle [aka *critical angle; critical angle of Gissane], like the Böhler angle, can be used to help determine the presence of a calcaneus fracture on a radiograph.

Adam Politzer

Ádám Politzer (1835 - 1920) was a Hungarian Otolaryngologist. one of the principal founders of otology, was the first Professor of Otology in Vienna