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 Rivers
William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922) was an English psychiatrist, neurologist, anthropologist and anthropologist.