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Ortho Eponyms SPECIAL EXHIBIT 819 Radiologic History Exhibit Musculoskeletal Eponyms: Who Are Those Guys?1 Tim B. Hunter, MD • Leonard F. Peltier, MD, PhD • Pamela J. Lund, MD Introduction Accuracy and conciseness are essential elements in medical communication. Accu- racy is achieved through careful and painstaking use of medical nomenclature, which at times can be cumbersome. This difficulty has been overcome to some extent by the use of labels, tags, acronyms, and eponyms, which, when precisely defined and accurately used, convey a great deal of information very concisely. Eponyms are la- bels that provide two kinds of information: the pattern of a complex injury or patho- logic problem and the name of an individual who has been closely identified with that problem, reminding us that the medicine of today is not entirely the work of our contemporaries. “The word eponym is derived from the Greek word eponymos, which means named after. An eponym may be defined as the name(s) of one or more individuals who presumably have devised or described an anatomic structure, a classification system, a disease, an injury, a principle, a physical sign, or an operative technique” (Salter RB, written communication, 1999). Mark Ravitch, in discussing Guillaume Dupuytren’s invention of the Mikulicz enterotome, had this to say about eponyms: “Given an eponym one may be sure (1) that the man so honored was not the first to describe the disease, the operation, or the instrument, or (2) that he mis- understood the situation, or (3) that he is generally misquoted, or (4) that (1), (2), and (3) are all simultaneously true.... My own feeling is that whatever their fallibility, eponyms illustrate the lineage of surgery and bring to it the color of old times, distin- guished figures, ancient sieges and pestilences, and continually remind us of the in- ternational nature of science...” (1). Index terms: Extremities, injuries • Fractures • Radiology and radiologists, history RadioGraphics 2000; 20:819–836 1From the Department of Radiology, University of Arizona, 1501 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724-5067. Received May 7, 1999; revisions requested May 28 and received August 16; accepted August 17. Address reprint requests to T.B.H. (e-mail: [email protected]) ©RSNA, 2000 820 May-June 2000 RG ■ Volume 20 • Number 3 All labels, whether they are tags, acronyms, or Musculoskeletal Injury Eponyms Classified eponyms, depend for their value on an accurate by Site understanding of their meaning. Without this un- derstanding, their use can be confusing, even dan- Head and neck gerous. When there is an accurate understanding Le Fort (facial) of their meaning, eponyms are valuable shorthand Jefferson (C1 ring) Thoracic and lumbosacral spine since they convey a good deal of specific informa- Holdsworth (thoracolumbar junction) tion in an abbreviated way. Unfortunately, ep- Chance (thoracolumbar junction) onyms are often not used consistently or accu- Pelvis rately by all, and, in some instances, there are Duverney (wing of ilium) reasonable differences of opinion concerning the Malgaigne (hemipelvis) proper descriptive terminology applied to a par- Upper extremity ticular type of injury. This is particularly true in Hill-Sachs (glenohumeral joint) the case of classifications of ankle fractures. Bankart (glenohumeral joint) The classification of ankle fractures has a long Essex-Lopresti (elbow) and varied history, going back to Paris, France, at Monteggia, Bado (elbow, proximal radioulnar the beginning of the 19th century. With an un- joint, proximal ulna) Galeazzi (wrist, distal radioulnar joint, distal limited supply of fresh cadaver material, Dupuytren radius) and his students applied controlled mechanical Barton (distal radius) forces to the ankle and dissected and visualized Hutchinson (distal radius) the bone and soft-tissue injuries they had produced. Colles (distal radius) The results of their experiments were surprisingly Pouteau (distal radius) consistent, and they identified categories of frac- Smith (Reverse Colles) (distal radius) tures to which their names were applied (2–5). Goyrand (distal radius) Over the years, various ankle fracture classifica- Kienböck (carpal lunate) tion systems have been developed, including the Bennett (base of thumb metacarpal) Bosworth, Cotton, Dupuytren, Lauge-Hansen, Rolando (base of thumb metacarpal) Le Fort, Pott, and Weber systems. Today, there Lower extremity Pellegrini-Stieda (distal femur) are two commonly used classifications, the Segond (proximal tibia) Lauge-Hansen (6–10) and the Weber (11–13) Osgood-Schlatter (tibial apophysis) systems. The Lauge-Hansen classification, which Maisonneuve (tibia, fibula) uses the mechanism of injury to classify ankle Gosselin (distal tibia) fractures, is confusing. It uses terminology such Ankle and foot as supination and pronation that, when applied Bosworth, Cotton, Dupuytren, Lauge-Hansen, to the foot, is poorly understood, even by experi- Le Fort, Pott, Weber (ankle) enced orthopedic surgeons. The Weber classifica- Shepherd (ankle, talus) tion is the most practical system for orthopedic Tillaux (distal tibia, ankle) surgeons. Because of the multiplicity of eponyms Chopart (midtarsal joint) and other designations for ankle fractures, there Lisfranc (tarsometatarsal joint) Freiberg (metatarsal head) is great confusion in their usage. For this reason, Jones (proximal shaft little toe metatarsal) the terms that are archaic, poorly defined, and Miscellaneous poorly understood should not be used, including Salter-Harris classification the Bosworth, Cotton, Dupuytren, Le Fort, and Pott classifications. The Lauge-Hansen classifica- tion should be used only if one is very familiar with its principles. displays the relative locations for these eponymic In this article, we define and illustrate many injuries. We have depicted the injuries in a man- common and several not so common musculo- ner most consistent with the original description skeletal injury eponyms used in daily practice of the injury. In addition, to acknowledge and (see the Appendix for a bibliography). The Table honor the significant contributions of those indi- classifies the eponyms by body site, and Figure 1 viduals whose eponyms we are illustrating, we have included, wherever possible, a short descrip- tion of the individual’s career and reference to RG ■ Volume 20 • Number 3 Hunter et al 821 Figure 1. Drawing of a skeleton stand- ing in standard anatomic position illus- trates the relative location of eponymic musculoskeletal injuries. their original description of the injury now bearing Musculoskeletal their name. We have designated those fracture Injury Eponyms eponyms that are no longer in current use or that are poorly understood as archaic, and we recom- Bado Classification.—The Bado classification mend that they not be used. system is used for the Monteggia type of fracture- We advise radiologists to describe soft-tissue dislocation injuries in which there is fracture of and bone injuries by using standard anatomic the ulnar shaft and dislocation of the radial head and radiographic terminology. Always avoid the (14–16). In a type I Bado fracture, the radial head use of an eponym or colloquial descriptive term, is displaced anteriorly; in type II, the radial head unless you are certain of its precise definition. is displaced posteriorly or posterolaterally; in type Never use a colloquial term, whether it be an ab- III, the anterior or anterolateral dislocation of the breviation, tag, acronym, or eponym, as a stand- radial head is associated with an ulnar metaphy- alone description for an injury or pathologic pro- seal fracture; and in type IV, fractures of the proxi- cess. On the other hand, radiologists should be- mal one-third of the radius and ulna at the same come familiar with the eponyms illustrated herein. level are associated with anterior displacement of They are terms in everyday use by orthopedic the radial head (Fig 2). surgeons. Accurate knowledge of them will en- hance radiologists’ interactions with their ortho- pedic colleagues. 822 May-June 2000 RG ■ Volume 20 • Number 3 a. b. c. d. Figure 2. Drawings illustrate Bado’s classification of Monteggia fractures: type I (a), type II (b), type III (c), and type IV (d). A type I Bado fracture represents the fracture-disloca- tion originally described by Monteggia, a fracture of the proximal one-third of the ulna with anterior dislocation of the radial head. Jose Luis Bado (1903–1977) was a distinguished Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart (1879–1951) orthopedic surgeon from Montevideo, Uruguay. was a distinguished British orthopedic surgeon. His works have been widely published in Latin He was a founding member of the British Ortho- America, North America, and Europe. He founded paedic Association and served as its secretary and and headed for many years the Instituto de as its president. Ortopedia y Traumatologia in Montevideo. Barton Fracture.—In a Barton fracture-disloca- Bankart Fracture.—A Bankart fracture refers tion, either the dorsal or ventral (anterior or pos- to an anterior tear of the glenoid labrum that is terior) aspect of the radiocarpal joint is fractured associated with anterior dislocation of the shoul- (19,20). The fracture involves the articular sur- der (Fig 3) (17,18). face of the radius (Fig 4). (See also Colles Frac- ture and Smith Fracture.) John Rhea Barton (1794–1871) carried out the first hip arthroplasty in 1826 at the Pennsyl- RG ■ Volume 20 • Number 3 Hunter et al 823 Figure 3. Drawing depicts a Bankart fracture (arrowhead), which consists
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