Eponyms in Surgery and Anatomy of the Liver, Bile Ducts and Pancreas

Mark D Stringer MS FRCP FRCS FRCSEdProfessor of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand

This book is recommended for its scholarship and the liberal inclusion of appropriate illustrations that only add to its palatability. Anatomists, surgeons, and medical historians will find the book both interesting and informative.—Clinical Anatomy 23:319 (2010)This is an excellent little book written by Professor Stringer. ... well researched summary of 'Eponyms' related to the anatomy and surgery of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas. The book is an easy read ... liberally illustrated throughout with photographs ... and there are a number of amusing anecdotes. Useful for anyone interested in the history of medicine. However, I would also recommend this book to students as the little piece of anatomy or surgery at the beginning of each section is of educational value. An excellent read for one's leisure time or when travelling for the student of medicine, the anatomist, the general physician, the general surgeon or the hepatobiliary specialist. I enjoyed the book immensely and can recommend it thoroughly.—Professor Roy Spence, Ulster Medical Journal, 2010; 79: 106-8This delightful book is packed with interesting anecdotes. The illustrations are sharp and in full colour.This book will be enjoyed for interesting vignettes discovered when browsing during occasional moments of enforced inactivity; it could help pass the time on a journey or entertain during convalescence. Keep it away from examiners though, as it would be all too easy to encourage discussion of the interesting lives and neglect the important surgical principles of the people remembered by their eponymous fame.—Colin Johnson, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2011; 93: 88-92

• Eponym (Biography) Abernethy maiformation - congenitai extrahepatic portocaval shunt (lohn Abernethy) Arantius duct or Iigament (Giulio Caesar Aranzi) Sakes dilators (Jaroslav Sakes) Baumgarten recess (Paul Ciemens von Baumgarten) Bismuth classification of postoperative bile duct strictures (Henri Bismuth) Boas sign of acute cholecystitis (lsmar I Boas) Budd-Chiari syndrome (George Budd) Burhenne catheter for extraction of retained biliary calculi (Joachim Burhenne) Calot's triangle (Fran~ois Calot)Cantlie's line (James Cantlie) Caroli's disease/syndrome (Jacques Caroli) Carrel patch (Aiexis Carrel) Charcot's intermittent hepatic fever/Charcot's triad (Jean Martin Charcot) Budd-Chiari syndrome (Hans Chiari) Child's classification of severity of liver disease (Charles Gardner Child 3rd) Couinaud's liver segments (Ciaude Couinaud) Courvoisier's law (Ludwig G Courvoisier) Cullen's sign (Thomas S Cullen) Deaver retractor (John Blair Deaver) Desjardins gallstone forceps (Abel Desjardins) Space of Disse (Joseph H V Disse) DuVal procedure for chronic pancreatitis (Merlin K DuVal Jr) Frey procedure for chronic pancreatitis (Charles F Frey) Fissure of Gans (Henry Gans) Glisson's capsule or sheath (Francis Glisson) Grey Turner's sign in acute pancreatitis (George Grey Turner) Hartmann's pouch (Henri Albert Hartmann) Heister's spiral valve (Lorenz Heister) Canals of Hering (Karl Ewald K Hering) Hjortsjö's crook (Cari-Herman Hjortsö) lto cell (Toshio lto) Kasai portoenterostomy (Morio Kasai) Klatskin tumour (Gerald Klatskin) Kocher's incision/Kocher's manoeuvre (Emil Theodor Kocher) Eponym (Biography) Kupffer cell (Carl W von Kupffer) Laennec's cirrhosis (Rene T H Laennec) lslets of Langerhans (Paul Langerhans) LeVeen peritoneo-venous shunt (Harry Henry LeVeen) Lilly's technique for choledochal cyst excision (lohn Russell Lilly) Longmire's intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy (William Polk Longmire jr) Cystic lymph node of Lund (Fred Bates Lund) Luschka's duct (Hubert von Luschka) Mayo Robson incision (Arthur W Mayo Robson) Mirizzi syndrome (Pablo Luis Mirizzi) Morison's pouch (James Rutherford Morison) Moynihan cholecystectomy forceps (Berkeley George A Moynihan) Murphy's sign (lohn Benjamin Murphy) Nardi provocation test (George L Nardi) Ochsner trocar (Edward H Ochsner) Sphincter of Oddi (Ruggero F A G V Oddi) Pringle manoeuvre (James Hogarth Pringle) Puestow procedure (longitudinal pancreaticojejunostomy) (Charles B Puestow) Ranson's criteria (lohn H C Ranson) Retzius' veins (Anders Adolf Retzius) Rex recess/Rex shunt (Hugo Rex) Riedel's lobe (Bernhard M C L Riedel) Rokitansky-Aschoff sinus (Carl von Rokitansky) Rouviere's sulcus (Henri Rouviere) Roux-en-Y jejunal anastomosis (Cesar Roux) Saint's triad (Charles F M Saint) Duct of Santorini (Giovanni Domenico Santorini) Sappey's veins (Marie P C Sappey) Sengstaken-Biakemore tube (Robert W Sengstaken, Arthur H Blakemore) Spiegel lobe (Adriaan van der Spiegel) Sugiura devascularisation procedure (Mitsuo Sugiura) Ampulla of Vater (Abraham Vater) Warren distal splenorenal shunt (W Dean Warren) Whippie pancreaticoduodenectomy/Whipple's triad (Allen Oldfather Whipple) Foramen of Winslow (Jacques-Benigne Winslow) Wirsüng's duct (Johann Georg Wirsüng)