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James Watson Kernohan
Irish-American pathologist, born 1897, Moyasset, Antrim County, Ireland; died 1981.
Associated eponyms:
Kernohan's notch
A groove in the cerebral peduncle.
Kernohan-Woltman syndrome
False localising ipsilateral hemiparesis in which the free edge of the tentorium compresses the contralateral crus cerebri in the midbrain.
Biography:
James Watson Kernohan qualified in medicine at Queen’s University, Ireland. In 1931 he moved to the United States of America and became a pathologist at the Mayo Clinic
Bibliography:
- J. W. Kernohan and George Pomeroy Sayre (born 1911):
Tumors of the central nervous system.
Washington, D.C. : Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; sold by American Registry of Pathology, 1952. 129 pages. In the series: Atlas of tumor pathology; fascicles 35 and 37 (these were combined and published in one volume).
- J. W. Kernohan and Alfred Uihlein (born 1908):
Sarcomas of the brain. Springfield, Illinois : Thomas, 1962. 192 pages.
In the series: Carl Vernon Weller lecture series.
- J. W. Kernohan and G. P. Sayre:
Tumors of the pituitary gland and infundibulum.
Washington, D. C. : Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; sold by American Registry of Pathology, 1956. 81 pages.
In the series: Atlas of tumor pathology; fascicle 36.
- D. C. Dahlin:
James Watson Kernohan: 1896-1981.
Surgical Neurology, February 1984, 21 (2): 107-109.
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