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Edward Janeway

Edward Gamaliel Janeway (1841 - 1911)

Edward Gamaliel Janeway (1841 – 1911) was an American physician and pathologist.

Remembered for his description of Janeway lesions in 1899 as a distinctive painless dermatological manifestation seen in some cases of infective endocarditis


Biography
  • Born August 31, 1841 in New Jersey
  • 1860 – A.B. Rutgers
  • 1861 – Medical cadet in the U.S. Army Hospital in Newark, New Jersey
  • 1864 – Graduated in medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City
  • 1864 – Intern at the smallpox hospital, Blackwell’s Island
  • 1866 – 1872 Pathologist and curator at Bellevue Hospital in New York
  • Died February 10, 1911

Medical Eponyms

Janeway lesion (1899)

Janeway lesions are non-tender, small erythematous or haemorrhagic macular or nodular lesions on the palms or soles only a few millimeters in diameter that are indicative of infective endocarditis. To be differentiated from painful Osler nodes.

Janeway lesions @Toaster_Pastry
Janeway lesions via @Toaster_Pastry

In trying to determine whether a given case is more probably due to endocarditis or to another malignant process I have found that attention to the position of the hemorrhages is at times very helpful. Several times I have noted numerous small hemorrhages with slight nodular character in the palms of the hand and soles of the feet, when possibly the arms and legs had but a scanty crop in malignant endocarditis, whereas this has not been my experience with processes likely to be mistaken for it.

Janeway, 1899

Major Publications

References

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