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William Edwards Ladd
American physician, born September 8, 1880, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died 1967.
Associated eponyms:
Ladd's bands
Bands of peritoneum that attach the cecum to the right lateral abdominal wall, causing obstruction of the duodenum.
Ladd's operation
Surgical cutting of Ladd's band to relieve duodenal obstruction in malrotation of the intestine.
Ladd's syndrome
Congenital obstruction of the duodenum due to peritoneal bands (Ladd's bands) resulting from a malrotated cecum.
Ladd-Gross syndrome
Icterus neonatorum associated with atresia of the bile ducts.
Biography:
William Edwards Ladd was the son of William Jones Ladd and Anna Russel Watson. He married Helen Katharine Barton on August 18, 1910, in Worcester, Massachusetts. They had three children.
Ladd is considered a father of paediatric surgery. He is particularly remembered for a patient named Millie Collins who had been born with oesophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula. Ladd operated, and Millie became the first in the world to survive this operation.
Robert Edward Gross was William Edwards Ladd's chief resident at the Children's Hospital in Boston and they worked together for many years. Gross eventually filled the position of Dr. Ladd upon his retirement.
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