Eponymous surgical procedures are generally named after the surgeon or surgeons who performed or reported them first. In some instances they are named after the surgeon who popularised them or refined existing procedures, and occasionally are named after the patient who first underwent the procedure.
| Procedure | Name | Field | Description | External link or reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Christie Anderson, Wilfred Hynes | |||||
| Bankart repair | |||||
| Belsey fundoplication | Ronald Herbert Robert Belsey | Fundoplication with 240° wrap | Web site: Belsey mark iv fundoplication. GE. Medcyclopaedia. | ||
| Bentall's procedure | Hugh Bentall | Cardiothoracic surgery | Composite graft replacement of the aortic valve, aortic root and ascending aorta, with re-implantation of thecoronary arteries into the graft | ||
| Bier's block | August Bier | Anesthesiology | Intravenous regional anesthesia. Usually used for short upper limb surgeries. | ||
| Blalock–Hanlon shunt | Alfred Blalock, C. Rollins Hanlon | ||||
| Palliative surgical procedure to treat infants with cyanotic heart defects | |||||
| Burrow's triangle excision | Karl August von Burrow | Reconstructive surgery | Triangles of skin adjacent to a sliding flap are excised to facilitate movement of the flap | ||
| John Leigh Collis, British cardiothoracic surgeon | Procedure for lengthening oesophagus[1] | COLLIS JL . An operation for hiatus hernia with short oesophagus . Thorax . 12 . 3 . 181–8 . September 1957 . 13467876 . 1019207 . 10.1136/thx.12.3.181. | |||
| Dor fundoplication | Dor | Partial fundoplication with 180° anterior wrap[2] | Dor fundoplication at Medilexicon.com | ||
| Finney pyloroplasty | Finney 1902 | ||||
| Foley operation | |||||
| François Fontan | Palliative procedure used to treat complex congenital heart defects in children | ||||
| Gavriliu's operation | |||||
| Gillies lift | Harold Gillies | Maxillofacial Surgery | Procedure to lift depressed fractured zygoma via temporal approach | ||
| Trygve Gundersen | Procedure to replace a damaged section of cornea with part of the conjunctiva | ||||
| Geoffrey John Hadfield | Surgical removal (excision) of all lactiferous ducts of the breast for managing duct ectasia. | ||||
| Halsted's operation (hernia) | Repair of inguinal hernia[3] | ||||
| Halsted's operation (mastectomy) | |||||
| Heineke - Mikulicz pyloroplasty | |||||
| Ernest Heller | Heller E . 1913 . Extramucose Cardiaplastik beim chronischen Cardiospasmus mit Dilatation des Oesophagus.. Mitteil Grenzgeb Med Chir. 27. 141. | ||||
| Homans operation | |||||
| Ivor Lewis (1895–1982) | T.J. Crofts. October 2000. Ivor-Lewis oesophagectomy for middle and lower third oesophageal lesions - how we do it. J.R.Coll.Surg.Edinb.. 45. 5. 296–303. 2010-08-07. 11077777. https://web.archive.org/web/20100412160058/http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol45_5/4550006.htm. 2010-04-12. dead. | ||||
| Jaboulay's pyloroplasty | |||||
| Jaboulay - Winkelmann operation | Mathieu Jaboulay, Karl Winkelmann (1863 - 1925) | ||||
| A gastrointestinal tract surgery to treat infants with biliary atresia | [4] | ||||
| Keller's excision arthroplasty | William L. Keller | Orthopaedic surgery | Proximal third of proximal phalanx is excised in Hallux valgus | ||
| Killian's operation | Operation to treat frontal sinusitis | ||||
| Ladd's procedure | William Ladd | Upper gastrointestinal surgery | Done for small intestinal malrotation. | ||
| Lisfranc's amputation | |||||
| Peter H. Lord | |||||
| Lord's procedure for hydrocele | Peter H. Lord | ||||
| Mayo Repair | General Surgery | Repair of Umblical herniaDouble breasted (Vast over Trouser) | |||
| Miles operation | |||||
| Paul's operation | Frank Thomas Paul (1851–1941) | [5] | |||
| Phemister graft | Dallas B. Phemister | Bone graft | Method of bone graft which uses bone tissue harvested from the patient to treat slow-healing, or delayed union bone fractures. | [6] | |
| Partial gastrectomy with posterior gastrojejunostomy, a modification of the Billroth II operation | |||||
| Ramstedt's pyloromyotomy | Wilhelm Ramstedt | Upper gastrointestinal surgery | Splits hypertrophic muscle and leaves mucosa intact in Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis | [7] | |
| End-to-side anastomosis between cut end of small bowel and distal small bowel | |||||
| Sistrunk procedure | Walter Sistrunk | Otorhinolaryngology | Surgical management option for thyroglossal cyst. Complete excision of thyroglossal tract with removal of hyoid and suprahyoid tract. | ||
| Smith's operation | Henry Smith | Removal of intact immature cataract from within the lens (i.e. intracapsular cataract removal) | |||
| Syme's amputation | |||||
| Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction | Named after the Major League Baseball pitcher who was the first professional athlete to undergo the procedure, in 1974.[8] | ||||
| Toupet fundoplication | Andre Toupet | Fundoplication with 270° posterior wrap | Laparoscopy Hospital article | ||
| Trendelenburg's operation[9] | |||||
| Wertheim's operation[10] | |||||