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Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank
Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank, Sir Thomas Fairbank, English orthopaedic surgeon, born 1876, Windsor; died February 26, 1961.
Associated eponyms:
Fairbank's syndrome II
A syndrome in which short stature is associated with multiple other abnormalities of the skeleton.
Fairbank-Keats syndrome
A rare form of bone dysplasia characterised by distinctive bone lesions, disproportionate dwarfism, and severe craniofacial defect.
Müller-Ribbing-Clément syndrome (Walther Müller)
A rare bone disturbance characterised by stunted stature, obliteration of the hollow bones, and premature degenerative atropathy, in particular of the hip joints.
Voorhoeve's disease
A syndrome of osteopathia striata and cranial sclerosis affecting both sexes.
Biography:
Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank, later Sir Thomas Fairbank, was the son of a general practitioner in Windsor. He qualified in medicine at the Charing Cross Hospital in 1898 and planned to become a facio-maxillary surgeon and obtained a diploma in dentistry. After serving as a volunteer in the Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa, he trained in surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and in 1906 he was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to the Charing Cross Hospital. In 1915, during World War I, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Greece. After war service he was appointed orthopaedic surgeon at King’s College Hospital, London, where he remained until he retired in 1936. In 1939, however, he was called to war service once again, now to supervise the orthopaedic section of the emergency medical services. After the war he had a consulting practice in Harley Street for some years. Fairbank was President of the British Orthopaedic Association 1926-1927.
Bibliography:
- Increased and decreased density of bone, with special reference to fibrosis of the marrow.
The Robert Jones Lecture, 1938.
- An Atlas of General Affections of the Skeleton.
Edinburgh, Livingstone, 1951.
Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1951.
Obituaries:
- The Lancet, 1961, I: 566.
- The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1961, 43: 595.
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