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Italian anatomist Giovanni Morgagni (1682-1771) published ‘the seats and causes of disease investigated by anatomy in 5 books’ in 1761. It correlated antemortem symptoms with postmortem findings in around 700 cases, a critical turning point in our understanding of disease.

Eagle syndrome is orofacial pain due to an elongated or misshapen styloid process that can be treated by surgical removal. It was first described in 1937 by American ENT surgeon Watt Weems Eagle (1898-1980) while working at Duke University.

The great cerebral vein is also known as the vein of Galen, after the famous Greek physician from the Roman Empire, and can develop a congenital arteriovenous malformation. This can lead to high cardiac output and heart failure, but can be treated by endovascular techniques.

Austrian surgeon and anatomist Carl Toldt (1840-1920) described a ‘white line’ which separates the mesocolon from the retroperitoneum. The “white line of Toldt” has become an important landmark in colon resections, as opening it allows for the colon to be mobilized.

The ligament of Treitz (suspensory muscle of duodenum) marks the division between the duodenum and jejunem, and between upper and lower GI tract. It plays a role in embryological rotation of the gut, and was described in 1853 by Chech pathologist Václav Treitz. @AkkapuluNezih

American surgeon Alfred Adson (1887-1951) pioneered neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic. He described a manoeuvre and operation for thoracic outlet syndrome (aka Adson-Coffey syndrome). Numerous instruments are named for him, including Adson forceps!

Japanese born surgeon Hiroma Shinya (b. 1935) invented the electrosurgical polypectomy snare as a resident in NYC. He performed the first polypectomy by colonoscopy in September of 1969, years before the National Polyp Study (initiated in 1980) linked polyps to colon cancer.

Bezoars, masses of foreign material in the GI tract, can cause obstruction. While they can be made of many different materials, ones made of hair (trichobezoar) that extend from the stomach to the small bowel and even beyond are described as “Rapunzel syndrome”.

Thanks! Apparently ‘hamatus’ is also Latin, meaning ‘hooked’. I wonder why the name change. https://t.co/VKNzxnmjbH

The first recipient of a human blood transfusion was a patient named Brazier, a man with obstructing gastric cancer. English obstetrician James Blundell, with surgeon Henry Cline’s assistance, transfused about 400 mL, on September 26, 1818. The patient died 56 hours later.