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 Eponyms in category: Fractures
 13 main and alternative entries found.
 
Battle's sign
Sign suggesting fracture of the base of the skull.
Brodie's disease I
Hysterical pseudofracture of the spine.
Bryant's extension (Bryant's traction)
Traction applied to the lower leg with the force pulling vertically, employed especially in fractures of the femur in infants and young children.
Bryant's traction
Traction applied to the lower leg with the force pulling vertically, employed especially in fractures of the femur in infants and young children.
Colles' fracture
Transverse fracture of the radius just above the wrist with displacement of hand backward and outward (dorsal displacement of the distal fragment).
Dupuytren fracture (Pott's fracture)
A common fracture of one or both bones just above the ankle.
Jefferson's fracture
Fracture of the upper cervical vertebra (atlas).
Kirmisson's sign
Transverse striated ecchymoses at the elbow seen in fractures of the humerus with displacement of the higher fragment.
Monteggia's fracture
Fracture of the upper portion of the ulna combined with dislocation of the radial head.
Pott's fracture
A common fracture of one or both bones just above the ankle.
Pott’s syndrome I (Pott's fracture)
A common fracture of one or both bones just above the ankle.
Smith's fracture (Robert William Smith)
A flexion and compression fracture of the lower end of the radius, with forward displacement of the lower fragment.
Vidal's classification
Classification of fractures of the heel.
 

 
 

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