Appendicitis – the eponymous examination
Authors eponymously associated with abdominal signs, symptoms, investigation and management of appendicitis
Tag James Sherren
James Sherren
James Sherren (1872-1945) British General surgeon. Eponym: Sherren's triangle - area of hyperaesthesia associated with appendicitis
Sherren triangle
Area of skin hyperaesthesia bounded by lines joining anterior superior iliac spine, the pubic symphysis and umbilicus. One of myriad eponymous signs of acute appendicitis.
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William Halse Rivers
Biography Born 12 March 1864, Chatham, England Died 4 June 1922, Cambridge, England Medical Eponyms Key Medical Attributions Sir Henry Head (1861 – 1940) and James Sherren (1872 – 1945) had tried to determine the sensibility remaining after complete division of all cutaneous nerves…