List of orthopaedic eponyms explained

See also: Medical eponyms.

Fractures

• Aviator's fracture
• Bankart's fracture
• Barton's fracture
• Bennett's fracture
• Boxer's fracture
• Bumper fracture
• Burst fracture
• Bosworth fracture
• Chance fracture
• Chopart's fracture-dislocation
• Clay-Shoveller fracture
• Colles' fracture
• Cotton's fracture
• Dupuytren's fracture
• Duverney fracture
• Essex-Lopresti fracture
• Galeazzi fracture
• Gosselin fracture
• Hangman's fracture
• Holstein–Lewis fracture
• Holdsworth fracture
• Hutchinson's fracture
• Hoffa fracture
• Hume fracture
• Jefferson fracture
• Jones fracture
• Lisfranc fracture
• March fracture
• Maisonneuve fracture
• Malgaigne's fracture
• Monteggia fracture
• Moore's fracture
• Night-stick fracture
• Pilon fracture
• Pipkin fracture-dislocation
• Plafond fracture
• Pott's fracture
• Rolando fracture
• Segond fracture
• Shepherd's fracture
• Side-swipe fracture
• Smith's fracture
• Stieda fracture
• Straddle fracture
• Tillaux-Chaput avulsion fracture
• Wagstaffe-Le Fort avulsion fracture
• Volkmann avulsion fracture

Orthopedic classifications

• Bado classification
• Danis–Weber classification
• Denis classification
• Evans-Jensen classification
• Ficat classification
• Frykman classification
• Garden classification
• Gartland classification
• Gruen zone
• Gustilo open fracture classification
• Haruguchi classification
• Hawkin's classification
• Herbert classification
• Herscovici classification
• Ideberg classification
• Jupiter and Mehne classification
• Lauge-Hansen classification
• Le Fort fracture of skull
• Loder classification
• Mayfield classification
• Milch classification
• Neer classification
• Pipkin classification
• Pauwel's classification
• Riseborough and Radin classification
• Ruedi-Allgower classification
• Salter–Harris fracture
• Schatzker classification of tibia plateau fractures
• Tile classification
• Schatzker classification of olecranon fractures
• Sanders classification
• Seddon classification
• Seinsheimer classification
• Schenck classification
• Teisen classification
• Tscherne classification
• Thompson and Epstein classification
• Vancouver classification
• Wassel classification
• Winquist and Hansen classification
• Young-Burgess classification

Procedures

• Akin osteotomy
• Bankart repair
• Broström procedure
• Brunelli procedure
• Cotrel–Dubousset instrumentation
• Cunningham Shoulder Reduction
• Darrach's procedure
• Darrah procedure
• Evans technique
• Girdlestone's Procedure
• Keller procedure
• Kocher manoeuvre
• Krukenberg procedure
• Latarjet procedure
• Mumford procedure
• Ponseti method
• Swanson's Arthroplasty
• Tommy John surgery
• Weil's Osteotomy
• Weaver–Dunn procedure
• Zadek's procedure

Anatomy

• Gerdy's tubercle
• Guyon's Canal
• Harrison's groove
• Haversian canal
• Humphrey's ligament
• Lisfranc joint
• Lisfranc ligament
• Lister's tubercle
• Martin-Gruber Anastomosis
• Schmorl's nodes
• Volkmann's canals

CPRs

• Harris Hip Score
• Kocher criteria
• Mirel's Score
• Rowe Score

Clinical signs

• Andersson lesion
• Baastrup's sign
• Bouchard's nodes
• Boutonniere deformity
• Coopernail's sign
• Codman triangle
• Destot's sign
• Frankel's sign
• Heberden's node
• Kanavel's sign
• Larrey's sign
• Trendelenburg gait

Clinical examination

• Allis test
• Apley grind test
• Apley scratch test
• Barlow's maneuver
• Clarke's test
• Cozen's test
• Cotton test
• Durkan's test
• Finkelstein's test
• Froment's sign
• Jobe's test
• Kapandji score
• Gaenslen's test
• Galeazzi test
• Gerber's test
• Hawkins–Kennedy test
• Hubscher's maneuver
• Lachman test
• Lasègue's sign
• McMurray test
• Mulder's sign
• Neer impingement sign
• O'Brien's test
• Ober's test
• Ortolani test
• Patrick's test
• Phalen maneuver
• Simmonds' test
• Schober's test
• Speed's test
• Thomas test
• Thompson test
• Tinel sign
• Trendelenburg's sign
• Yergason's test
• Waddell's signs
• Watson's test
• Wilson test

Congenital conditions

• Albers-Schonberg disease
• Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
• Antley–Bixler syndrome
• Apert syndrome
• Beals syndrome
• Bechterew's
• Bruck syndrome
• Camurati–Engelmann disease
• Catel–Manzke syndrome
• Cole carpenter syndrome
• Conradi–Hünermann syndrome
• Currarino syndrome
• Ehlers–Danlos syndrome
• Eiken syndrome
• Ellis–van Creveld syndrome
• Erlenmeyer flask deformity
• Fairbanks disease
• Hajdu–Cheney syndrome
• Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia
• Kashin–Beck disease
• Klippel–Feil syndrome
• Klippel–Trénaunay–Weber syndrome
• Kniest dysplasia
• Lobstein syndrome
• Madelung's deformity
• Maffucci syndrome
• Marfan syndrome
• Marie-Strümpell disease
• Marshall syndrome
• Marshall–Smith syndrome
• McCune–Albright syndrome
• Melnick–Needles syndrome
• Morton's toe
• Ollier disease
• Rett syndrome
• Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome
• Scheuermann's disease
• Schwartz–Jampel syndrome
• Silver–Russell syndrome
• Teunissen–Cremers syndrome
• Trevor disease
• Wiedemann syndrome

Acquired conditions

• Baker's cyst
• Bankart lesion
• Barré–Liéou syndrome
• Blount's disease
• Brodie abscess
• Chandler's disease
• De Quervain syndrome
• Dupuytren's contracture
• Ewing's sarcoma
• Freiberg disease
• Garre's sclerosing osteomyelitis
• Gorham's disease
• Haglund's deformity
• Hill–Sachs lesion
• Iselin's disease
• Kashin–Beck disease
• Kienbock's disease
• Köhler disease
• Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome
• Morton's neuroma
• O'Donoghue's triad
• Osgood–Schlatter disease
• Paget's disease of bone
• Panner disease
• Perthes Lesion
• Preiser disease
• Sever's disease
• Stener lesion
• Sudeck's atrophy
• Tietze syndrome
• Volkmann's contracture

Orthopedic implants

• Austin Moore prosthesis
• Baksi's prosthesis
• Charnley prosthesis
• Denis Browne bar
• Ender's nail
• Grosse-Kempf nail
• Harrington rod
• Herbert screw
• Kirschner wire
• Kuntscher nail
• Moore's pin
• Neer's prosthesis
• Rush nail
• Schanz screw
• Seidel nail
• Smith Peterson nail
• Steinmann pin
• Swanson prosthesis
• Talwalkar nail
• Thompson prosthesis

Orthopaedic instruments

• Bryant's traction
• Charnley Retractor
• Darrach elevator
• Faraboeuf forceps
• Gigli saw
• Hohmann retractor
• Ilizarov apparatus
• Inge retractor
• Jungbluth forceps
• Matta forceps
• Taylor Spatial Frame
• Thomas splint
• Verbrugge forceps
• Volkmann retractor
• Weber forceps

Surgical approaches

• Hardinge lateral approach to the hip
• Moore or Southern posterior approach to the hip
• Smith-Petersen anterior approach to the hip
• Watson-Jones anterolateral approach to the hip

Radiographic signs

• Baumann's angle
• Blumensaat's line
• Bohler's angle
• Cobb angle
• Fairbank's changes
• Gilula's Lines
• Harris lines
• Hilgenreiner's line
• Kellgren-Lawrence grading scale
• Klein's line
• Loosers zone
• Pauwel's angle
• Perkin's line
• Shenton's Line
• Southwick angle
• Thurstan Holland sign
• Trethowan's sign
• Terry Thomas sign

Radiographic projections

• Judet view
• Broden's view

Principles

• Wolff's law
• Hueter-Volkmann law
• Charley's principles of three-point fixation