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Eponymous surgical procedures are generally named after the surgeon or surgeons who performed or reported them first. In some instances they are named after the surgeon who popularised them or refined existing procedures, and occasionally are named after the patient who first underwent the procedure.
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The conclusion, as summarized in The Lancet, was this: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder." [ 1 ] However, because of the nature of the history of medicine , new discoveries are often referred to using the name of the people who initially made the discovery.
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Brunelli procedure; Cotrel–Dubousset instrumentation; Cunningham Shoulder Reduction; Darrach's procedure; Darrah procedure; Evans technique; Girdlestone's Procedure; Keller procedure; Kocher manoeuvre; Krukenberg procedure; Latarjet procedure; Mumford procedure; Ponseti method; Swanson's Arthroplasty; Tommy John surgery; Weil's Osteotomy ...
Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...