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

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

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)